Just watch me now…
The Rise Of Ziggy Stardust, (the official 2011 David Bowie calendar) will feature rare and unpublished shots from 1971 and 1972 as Bowie metamorphosed into Ziggy Stardust via the Hunky Dory album cover shoot…not to mention his brief Ancient Egyptian look which lasted for approximately one photo session.
Collectively referred to as The London Sessions, the period also includes the Ziggy Stardust album cover shoot (two photos are included here that weren’t used in the 2009 Heddon Street outtakes calendar) and the remaining Brian Ward Ziggy sessions that took place afterwards.
Though you may have seen some of the images before, you won’t have seen them in such high quality or with the colour balance as it should be, as in the Egyptian shot at top left in the above montage.
The cover of the calendar in the middle of the montage is only a mock-up, and though it will feature the same shot as illustrated, it will be a different design.
The Rise Of Ziggy Stardust will be published by Slow Dazzle and will feature fourteen of Brian Ward’s photographs in total…that’s half of them above.
We’ll give you more details as we get them.