Picturing Prince: An Intimate Portrait

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PICTURING PRINCE sees the late icon’s former art director, STEVE PARKE, revealing stunning intimate photographs of the singer from his time working at Paisley Park. A minimum of half of the images in the book are exclusively published here for the first time; most other images in the book are rare to the public eye.

This edition also includes 16 pages of lost photographs, all of which have recently been uncovered by the creator from within his extensive archive.

Alongside these remarkable images are fifty engaging, poignant and steadily funny written vignettes by Parke, which reveal the very human man at the back of the reclusive superstar: from shooting hoops to renting out movie theatres at 4am; from middle of the night requests for camels to meaningful conversations that make clear Prince as a man and artist.

STEVE PARKE set to work with Prince in 1988, after a mutual friend showed Prince some of Steve’s photorealistic paintings. He designed the whole thing from album covers and merchandise to sets for Prince’s tours and videos. Somewhere in all of this, he became Paisley Park’s official art director. He started photographing Prince at the request of the star himself, and continued to take action for the next several years. The images in this book are the arresting result of this collaboration.

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