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Photo by Duffy © Duffy Archive
Original Polaroid image used on the Lodger album cover, London 1979. After shooting on Kodachrome film David preferred the look of the SX70 Polaroid and this shot was used as the album cover. You can just about make out the wires that were attached to David’s face and gently pulled to distort his features. -
"David-san came to Japan with Iggy Pop to promote the latter's album The Idiot - that Bowie-san had produced. The photos were meant to have a punk feel. David-san had asked Yacco to get as many leather jackets as possible. The whole session was over an hour." After this photo session, Sukita selected about 20 photos to give to David, including the Heroes LP sleeve. When David contacted Sukita to say he wanted to use it, Sukita was delighted. Heroes went on to be voted Melody Maker magazines best cover image of the year. "I was very proud. I am still very fond of this photo." Masayoshi Sukita.
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"A few days before the show at Radio City Music Hall, Bowie did a photo session, a rehearsal and an interview at RCA Studio. He went on to do another rehearsal at Radio City Music Hall. Yacco-San was working as the stylist, running here and there with costumes by Kansai Yamamoto that shed brought over from Japan. They looked marvellous." Masayoshi Sukita
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"A few days before the show at Radio City Music Hall, Bowie did a photo session, a rehearsal and an interview at RCA Studios. He went on to do another rehearsal at Radio City Music Hall. Yacco-San was working as the stylist, running here and there with costumes by Kansai Yamamoto that shed brought over from Japan. They looked marvellous " Masayoshi Sukita
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A rare colour session photograph from the April 1977 "Heroes" shoot in Harajuku Studio, Tokyo.
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Photo by Duffy © Duffy Archive & The David Bowie Archive™
The David Bowie Aladdin Sane image was digitally remastered to a black and white negative format by Chris Duffy in 2012 and is still as recognisable as the original. -
Photo by Duffy © Duffy Archive & The David Bowie Archive™
This startling image was rediscovered in the Duffy archive in 2011. The Victoria & Albert Museum used this photograph as the lead image for the ‘David Bowie is’ exhibition which has toured worldwide and attracted over 1.6 million visitors. This image has become almost as well known as the original Aladdin Sane cover image.