Challenging himself to create images ‘that tell you everything you need to know’, Rankin has photographed some of the world’s most famed rock and pop stars. From his first serious commission for Dazed and Confused, in which Björk taught him to always follow his instincts, to more recent, ‘rule-breaking’ shots for Hunger, this volume reproduces images of figures including David Bowie, Blondie, Robert Smith and U2 alongside Rankin’s commentary on his thought processes.
Play draws exclusively on Rankin s archive of photographs of the biggest names in contemporary music from the rock gods who shaped our musical landscape to the British Invasion of the 1990s and the American superstars who mix music and production to define what the record industry is today. Divided by theme Heroes and Girl Gangs and Boy Bands, Cool Britannia and My Generation Play collects almost two hundred of Rankin s favorite images of the most influential artists of the last three decades, from David Bowie and Elton John to Pharrell, the Spice Girls, Grimes, and Bjork. Alongside his photos are anecdotes from Rankin and the artists themselves on the reciprocal relationship between photographer and subject and between the star power of pop music and the iconography of fashion.
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