Legendary photographer Mick Rock, known as “The Man Who Shot the Seventies,” has died, according to rollingstone. He was 72.
“It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side,” the statement read. “Those who had the pleasure of existing in his orbit, know that Mick was always so much more than ‘The Man Who Shot the 70s.’ He was a photographic poet — a true force of nature who spent his days doing exactly what he loved, always in his own delightfully outrageous way.”
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Rock documented an era of icons. Between 1972 and 1979, his portraits graced famous album covers and his videography flavored some of the first music videos of the era. David Bowie, Queen, Blondie, Iggy Pop, and Syd Barrett were among the famed artists he captured. His work is immortalized on the covers of Queen II, Raw Power, and Transformer. But his work resonated well beyond that era, having shot a range of artists, from Snoop Dogg to Yeah Yeah Yeahs.