David Bowie: Behind the Curtain, Andrew Kent

Description

Hardcover

David Bowie: Behind the Curtain is an intimate, unguarded, and deeply human portrait of David Bowie during one of the most mythic periods of his life and career — the rise of the Thin White Duke and the Station to Station era.

Photographer Andrew Kent was granted rare, unrestricted access between 1975 and 1977, accompanying Bowie across Berlin, Paris, New York, London, Helsinki, Moscow, private parties, hotel rooms, train compartments, backstage corridors, and onstage under the lights. The result is a one-of-a-kind visual travel diary of a star in transformation: glamorous, fragile, theatrical, restless, and brilliant all at once.

Also woven into the story are figures like Iggy Pop, Bowie’s manager Pat Gibbons, his personal secretary Coco Schwab, and even a very young Cameron Crowe, then just 18 and researching a Rolling Stone feature. One infamous detour — a missed train in the Soviet Union — led headlines around the world to proclaim Bowie “Missing.” Kent was there for all of it.

These photographs are not just documentation — they are trust, closeness, and creative intimacy made visible.

A must for lovers of Bowie, glam rock mystique, queer history, rock photography, and the art of becoming.

• Hardcover, large-format photography book

• Includes backstage, on-tour, and private candid moments

• Foreword by Cameron Crowe

• Introduction by Neal Preston

• Photographs by Andrew Kent