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Steve Schapiro: Photographs That Can Energize People and Music

by Nenad Georgievski
May 15, 2016

A long time photographer for Life magazine, Steve Schapiro is one of the most esteemed photographers of our time. For over five decades he has taken photographs of well-known politicians, activists and celebrities. These photographs are not only chronicles of people and the times, but cultural milestones as well. He has taken photographs of rev. Martin Luther King and the march in Selma, Senator Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign, the film sets of movies such as Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ...

Book Review

Bowie: Photographs by Steve Schapiro

by Nenad Georgievski
April 30, 2016

Bowie: Photographs by Steve Schapiro Steve Schapiro 104 Pages ISBN: 9781576878064 Powerhouse Books 2016 One thing is for certain, in his work, be it lyrics, visuals or music, singer David Bowie almost never embraced clear meaning. A one-man melting pot for ideas, his whole persona was so inventive and strange that it made people so fun and sometimes so hard to keep up with him on the path of his artistic adventures over ...

Multiple Reviews

David Bowie and His Legacy

by Nenad Georgievski
January 12, 2016

Very few musicians can boast to having an artistic career that changed the course of music history in the way singer David Bowie has had. A legend in his lifetime, he had a more varied and influential career than any other single performer in popular music. Bowie was an example of what an artist should be--brave, creative, mischievous, charismatic, mysterious, endlessly curious, unpredictable, and several steps ahead of the pack. Rarely anyone has embraced so many changes of style and ...

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Extended Analysis

Blackstar

by Nenad Georgievski
January 11, 2016

The 10-year long absence from the limelight clearly didn't dim singer David Bowie's sense of guile or invention. That was clearly evident with the sudden reappearance with the utterly brilliant The Next Day which pilot single “Where Are We Now?" appeared from nowhere on his birthday and delighting many people along the way. In a career that has lasted for 50 years, Bowie has always refused to be pigeonholed and with Blackstar that is set to continue. Many years into ...

Book Review

Mick Rock: The Rise of David Bowie, 1972–1973

by Nenad Georgievski
October 10, 2015

The Rise of David Bowie, 1972--1973 Mick Rock 310 Pages ISBN: 978-3-8365-4905-9 Taschen 2015 For many years, photographer Mick Rock has been capturing the passion and the energy of some of most distinguished rock and roll artists. Often referred to as the “man who shot the '70s" he has trained his lenses on many artists from Lou Reed, Syd Barrett, Iggy Pop to Blondie, Sex Pistols, Queen and David Bowie, to name but ...

Multiple Reviews

David Bowie: Excerpts from 1.Outside and Earthling

by Nenad Georgievski
October 18, 2014

The '80s were very good to singer David Bowie, and maybe too good for his own good. After producing Let's Dance(EMI, 1983), his best selling one, which was followed by a very successful world tour, he went on to reproduce his successes in a very grand and hefty way, mostly by reproducing the same pop formula endlessly. That resulted in a string of below average pop records that only served to increase his popularity and income rather than breaking new ...

Album Review

David Bowie: The Next Day

Read "The Next Day" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
March 24, 2013

The role of the artist is to deepen the mystery, Francis Bacon once said, and singer David Bowie is a master of that. After several years of studio and especially media abstinence, Major Tom has surprisingly reported for active duty when he released his first single in ten years, “Where are We Now?," coinciding with his 66th birthday. That broke the years of silence and speculation, and the news took over the world in a storm as if it was ...