David Bowie was one of the world’s best-selling artists and his image left a footprint in the minds of a few generations as one of the world’s most charismatic and recognizable figures. However, few have had the opportunity to photograph Bowie and even fewer knew him as personal as photographer Tony McGee, with whom he shared a very close professional and friendly relationship.
“David Bowie is an icon, probably the most inventive musician during the last 80 years,” said photographer Tony McGee. “To have worked with him on such a personal level was an enormous honor, this collection of images are ‘Unseen.’ And they show David in his private ‘off camera’ moments.”
In 1983, McGee first met Bowie at a private cocktail party hosted by theatrical impresario and producer Michael White, where the photographer was introduced to Bowie by Jerry Hall and Coco Schwab. The two immediately bonded, building the beginning of a friendship that would span for more than 30 years. A few days after their first meeting Tony was contacted by David’s record company and the first of their many photographic shoots together was arranged.
Their first collaboration was to shoot all of the publicity for the Let’s Dance Tour, 1983, and their photographic relationship continued well into the 1990s. One of the portraits of David Bowie by Tony McGee is in the permanent collection of National Portrait Gallery. McGee photographed one of David’s most famous covers for Face Magazine, which was regarded by GQ as one of the most the influential magazine covers of the 1980s.
Bowie was photographed by McGee on a number of occasions, and Tony would personally take the contact sheets from the photoshoots to Bowie who would the sign off on the images and put gold stars on the images of his choice. Here are some stunning portraits of David Bowie from a photoshoot by Tony McGee at his studio in London in 1983:
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