David Bowie’s Nineties and 2000s in Photos

Collaboration is a lavish new book that documents David Bowie as seen by the legendary photographer Frank Ockenfels 3. The photos, some never published before, come from 16 sessions stretching from 1991 to 2006. “I’m using myself as a canvas,” Bowie famously declared in 1976 — the Starman was always deeply engaged in the visual aspects of his artistry, always looking for collaborators who could push him. When he started working with Ockenfels in 1991, Bowie was leaving his glitzy Eighties “Let’s Dance” days behind, gearing up for the serious work he had ahead of him. The book includes intimate portraits, album artwork, and concert photos, with an introductory essay by Rolling Stone veteran Joe Levy. Collaboration has visions of Bowie in full creative flight — in magazine covers or reading backstage, in the recording studio or out on the streets of New York City. But it captures an artist in constant forward motion, always turning to face the strange.