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My favorite costume XD

What do you choose the best in his costumes?

sailor bowie for @dustonmars!

sorry I wanted to draw more but I only have a time to finish this…  I’ll bring other drawings next time.. ㅜㅜ

David Bowie, 1978, © Lynn Goldsmith | Source

David Bowie at the American Film Institute for Michelangelo Antonioni at Greystone Mansion, April 1975, © Frank Edwards/Michael Ochs Archives | Source

I'll be your light When the shadows fall down the wall Then life will be done And it just won't matter at all

Some excerpts from Starzone (David Bowie fanzine) #7 [1983] + advertisement (scans are mine)

David Bowie and Boris Grebenschikov at the Times Square Brewery, New York, December 1987  

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David Bowie 'As the World Falls Down' promo photos, 1986, © Chalkie Davies/David Hindley

David Bowie at the Phoenix Festival, July 20th, 1997. 📸: Pat Pope

David Bowie, Julian Schnabel and Iman Abdulmajid at a reception for the release of Schnabels’ album, “Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud”, published by Island Records, on May 24th 1995 in New York City

© Michael Ochs | Source

David Bowie, 1977, © Claude Vanheye

David Bowie at the Carlyle Hotel, New York, January 27th, 1983, © Gary Gershoff | Source

David Bowie at The Academy Theater, 1991, © Rick Maiman | Source

This looks so beautiful already I can’t wait for the final result 

This is going to take me a decade to finish, but it’s going to look so chill and cozy when it’s done

David Bowie’s signature was an ambigram

After he’s gone, he still continues to amaze me. Going trough some of his documents in a research for the design of a tattoo in his memory, I came across multiple of his signatures, along with some drawings, sketches and texts. I became suddenly amazed by his signature, and while studying it, considering to center the design of the tattoo on it, I made a quite interesting discovering. Nothing that I wouldn’t expect from a beautiful mind as his. David Bowie’s signature was an ambigram, in which he kept his two selves eternally communion. David Robert Jones choose his artistic name, David Bowie, as he transformed in who he dream himself of, achieving this in a way that all artists could envy and admire forever. And I found that he managed to reflect this subtly in his signature, reminding us, even without us knowing it, that he was a whole, the creator and the creation. I studied the graphology and the results were amazing.

You can easily perceive in his signatures the name “Bowie”, distorted, at least intuit it. A “B”, an “O”, and a line with a dot that could be the short transcript of the “wie”. He always signed adding the year of the signature. But that’s not all there was to it. Not slightly.

David Bowie never forgot who made himself who he was. And that was:

David

Robert

Jones If you look closely and carefully, this can be seen in all his signatures.  

B and O for Bowie.

D R J for David Robert Jones. This discovering has made me admire a mind that I couldn’t think it was possible to admire more in a way that has brought me closer to his work and personality than ever. He always remembered who he was. He still was that boy, a boy with a dream and a will to follow it. And he knew that even if it was only to himself, the most important thing was to remember, to never let go of what created and accomplished who he was, himself. To keep his mind together. Ambivalence was his talent and his gift. And that was his greatest achievement, and he left us the most sincere proof for it. It’s been really important for me personally and revealing to discover this. It leaves me with the feeling that even though I didn’t get an opportunity while he was alive, I’ve finally made contact with his soul, even if it’s with his trace. This was as great an artwork as himself.

Unused images from the Black Tie White Noise cover photoshoot, 1992

© Nick Knight | Source

“Unused images created by Nick Knight for David Bowie's 1993 album, Black Tie White Noise. The cover concept focused on a simple portrait of Bowie’s face mirrored down the middle - the front cover would be the two right hand sides and the back the two left hand sides. The result would be a slightly strange, disturbing vision that left the viewer feeling that something was not quite right. The concept was inspired by Bowie's distinct eyes, which had different sized pupils due to anisocoria, the result of a teenage tussle. The original shot, alongside the front cover option and the back cover option are shown here. In the end, a different image of Bowie by Knight, which features the close crop of the singer's face, slightly tilted, was selected.” 

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David Bowie, 1977, © Masayoshi Suktia

David Bowie, 1992(?) 

© Roxanne Lowit | Source

David Bowie, 1977 

© Bruce Weber 

David Bowie performing at Rotterdam Ahoy, Netherlands, 30th March 1990 

© Frans Schellekens | Source 

©️Albert Sanchez 1992.

Heaven's In Here

David Bowie, Vredenburg, Utrecht, 1991, © Harry Wolf | Source

David Bowie, 1984, © Greg Gorman

David Bowie performing at Goffertpark, Nijmegen, 17th August 1990

© Frans Schellekens | Source

David Bowie, Los Angeles 1983, © Greg Gorman