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Bowie backstage at his concert at The Rainbow Theatre in London on 16-18th August 1972.
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"We didn't get a lot of chances to shoot him, because of the lack of time and the problem of distance. Then we came up with an idea to create a mannequin so that we could shoot his portraits anytime we wanted. He was so co-operative in its production. The idea of the doll is that the old skin is flaking off and a new self is re-born. Each portrait I have made this way over 30 years is always a new and unique, timeless piece of work that I cherish." Masayoshi Sukita
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For this shoot, Sukita rented the studio from a Japanese photographer called Hiroshi Yoda and they did the session a week before Davids show at The Rainbow Theatre. Immediately beforehand, Bowie had been at a shoot with David Bailey. The whole session lasted just two hours. Some photographs from the shoot were featured in a popular Japanese fashion magazine, an-an, receiving a great deal of response from the readers.