“’Come with me and talk to Calvin about my LP sleeve,’ David says one day. ‘I’d like you to shoot the cover.’ David and Calvin have this idea of shooting David’s portrait in front of one of Calvin’s Vasarely prints. Calvin knows a girl in Paris called Betty Catroux, who runs Vasarely’s gallery and has ok’d it with her. I don’t dig the idea at first. It seems a bit unimaginative. Then I think it could be made interesting if David’s head is sort of floating out of the picture. We agree on that.

“At the session I have a clearer idea of how it is going to be done. First, I shoot David on a white background with and without a flaring filter (a bit of glass with a Vaseline smeared circle), then repeat against a black background. David is easy to work with, completely relaxed and obviously enjoying the session. My studio is dark and quiet I play a little mood music. The brilliant blue flash every time I press the shutter, creates ghost-like after images of the people grouped around David. ‘A sun machine!’ he exclaims. It takes the lab a couple of weeks to montage the two pics together, complicated in pre-Photoshop days, but the result pleases everyone.”

– Vernon Dewhurst, from the book David Bowie: Icon .

Limited edition museum quality Lambda C-Type print signed by Vernon Dewhurst.

30×30 Edition of 30

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