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David Bowie Aladdin Sane

Vintage Hi Fi playing the David Bowie Album Aladdin Sane

 

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For the album Aladdin Sane, the creativity of Bowie’s music was matched by an extraordinary image on the cover, photographed by Brian Duffy (1933 – 2010).

 

With a focus on the photo session that gave us Bowie’s ‘lightning bolt’ portrait, this exhibition explores the continuous reshaping of Bowie’s image, and his part, along with Duffy’s, in a reimagining of sexual and gender identity.

 

Professor Camille Paglia defined the portrait as ‘one of the most emblematic and influential art images of the past half century, reproduced and parodied in advertising, media and entertainment worldwide.’

 

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Uploaded on May 15, 2023
Taken on May 10, 2023