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Out of stockThis classic "Heroes" LP cover image limited edition is now sold out. The twelve frame contact sheet featuring this image is still available - for now...
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"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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"The show itself and Mick Ronson's guitar performance were both great and it was a blast for all the Japanese fans. I asked Kansai-san, who designed the costumes, what he thought about it and he just said… 'People are the most beautiful when naked!'" Masayoshi Sukita
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"My first Japanese tour and what a mad scene that turned out to be. I got carried away enough to perform an impromptu strip and gave my best shot as a 120lb sumo wrestler." David Bowie
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"6-12th February 1973, rehearsals at RCA Studio, New York, USA. Working out a riff on my Mini-Moog, the best little synthesizer in the West." David Bowie.
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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 she'd 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 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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This photograph has special significance for Sukita because it was chosen by David Bowie to blow up to a very large size and display in the foyer of the Rainbow Theatre for his concerts there on 19 and 20 August 1972. As Sukita explains: "I was very pleased about it. It proved that David-san really did like my work, and that was very important to me."
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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 David's 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.
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A set of three archivally processed Lambda photographs on 8 x 10 inch paper (image size approx 5.5 x 7.5 inches), a limited edition of 100 each, signed and numbered by Masayoshi Sukita. Unframed price excl VAT for the set of three.
