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BowieStyle (Paperback)

by Mark Paytress (Author), Steve Pafford (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 159 pages
  • Publisher: Omnibus Press (5 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0711977224
  • ISBN-13: 978-0711977228
  • Product Dimensions: 30.7 x 24.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 217,539 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Apart from being an excellent overview and analysis of Bowie's career, it is stuffed with fascinating trivia.' SUNDAY TIMES ' A wonderful book...shows how self-styling and unusual views on beauty can be fantastic.' BBC ONLINE

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A richly illustrated 160-page chronicle of pop's greatest exponent of style. This visual examination of a celebrated multi-faceted career documents the impact of David Bowie on twentieth-century fashion and culture, brilliantly capturing his spatial odyssey from dedicated follower to supreme arbiter of rock chic. As the book says, 'Bowie's "style" has always amounted to more than clothes, hair and cosmetics. Style, for Bowie, is inextricable from art...it is less a flight from reality than an entire way of life.' The range of photographs is staggering. From his humble Brixton beginnings to the classy pop icon in the last quarter of the old millennium (every year from 1962 to 1999 is amply represented), the book shows a changing glamour gallery of Bowies down the years, all different and yet somehow all unified by an unerring grasp of Style with a capital S. Whether it's on-stage with The King Bees in the Sixties, off-stage at Haddon Hall in the Seventies, on-stage (again) with Iggy Pop in the Eighties, or back-stage with Morrissey in the Nineties, Steve Pafford, editor of the UK's 'Crankin' Out' Bowie fan club magazine (PO Box 3268, London NW6 4NH), has unearthed some fascinating pix. There are close to 500 images in BowieStyle, an all-time high, and around 40% are guaranteed previously unseen. There's also an exclusive two-page interview with photographer Mick Rock, contributions from ex-manager Ken Pitt, as well as previously unpublished extracts of Crankin' Out's interviews with collaborator Tony Visconti, clothes designer Natasha Kornilof and Manish Boy Bob Solly. The informed, incisive text and picture captions are also littered with quotes from David himself, compiled from various media interviews conducted over the years, as well as his chats with Crankin' Out, which appear in print for the very first time.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful; comprehensive look at db's image/career...., 25 Dec 2001
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A beautifully put together piece of work taking a look at Bowie's personae and career through his ever-chaging image(s). Pick any doublespread at random and you will find stunning photographs by Mick Rock et al, facts and fun info giving a taster of db's influences, career in music, film and art and of his sartorial genius. Throughout, the authors have lovingly supplied pictorial evidence of the iconic style, timeless elegance and pioneering creativity that continues to influence fans, fashion designers, and even Madonna. And that's just the clothes... This book proves that there's fad, there's fashion and there's David Bowie.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Face!, 27 Jan 2001
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I'd never seen a great deal of the 500-odd pictures before Bowiestyle, and I've been a fan for over a decade and a half, with a great collection of books, mags and ephemera.

This really must be the most wonderful Bowiebook so far, because as well as the gorgeous pix I have learnt new insights into the man I didn't think were possible - the new interview with his photographer Mick Rock was particularly enlightening. From what I've seen of the various reviews on the net and in mags etc this book seems to have been a big hit with fans and critics alike. It's not really a great surprise if the Dame himself isn't 100 per cent behind it, as he's not making much money from it is he?

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5.0 out of 5 stars A book strictly for fans - but well done!, 9 Oct 2000
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This book was a clever idea indeed. Why write another Bowie biography when there have been too many of them already? Personally, I like most of them and I strongly recommend the recently published "Strange Fascination", by David Buckley. But quite a few Bowie fans have complained that they have no patience to read a long, detailed biography. So give them what they want: a glossy, coffee-table book full of pictures that will make female fans go WOW, plus bits and pieces of information that can be read piecemeal, in no particular order. Done by the wrong people, it could have been an embarrassing exercise in teenage-like worship. But these guys are experts and the results are more than worth the price of admission. Each chapter is devoted to an aspect of Bowie's life - there's even one about his favorite cigarette brands! This is really a fan's bible if there ever was one.
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1.0 out of 5 stars The pictures have all been seen before...
The pictures have all been seen before and don't really represent the best of what Bowie is about.

This is simply going over the same ground we have heard before. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars EASILY THE BEST BOWIE BOOK EVER PUBLISHED
Wow! I can't get over how fantastic this book is. Absolutely crammed with tons of wonderful(and in many cases rare or unseen), beautifully reproduced photographs of David at his... Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2000

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