Prince: Icon

A sumptuous and luxuriously produced compilation of photographs of legendary singer-songwriter Prince, with portraits, album covers, photographs of performances and rehearsals, rarely seen private moments, and candid snapshots.

"Rare and Striking photos..." — Vanity Fair France

"...the book does not just focus on Prince’s best known looks, but creates a sense of the man himself, and all the elements that afford him ‘icon’ status during his decades-long career.." — Digital Camera Magazine
"A New Prince Photography Book Cements His Status as an ‘Icon’— And It’s Already a Bestseller" — Billboard

This sumptuous and luxuriously produced volume gathers portraits, album covers, photographs of performances and rehearsals, rarely seen private moments, and candid snapshots of Prince, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of his generation. This collection from ACC Art Books & Iconic Images - publishers of the bestselling book Bowie: Icon - was curated in consultation with Steve Parke, and its impact is both powerful, and inspiring. With images by renowned and little-known photographers from around the world, close friends, and colleagues, the result is the most opulent visual anthology of Prince that has ever been published. Accompanying personal essays and reflections offer unprecedented insight into what he was like: from memories of the earliest days in Minneapolis to touring the world, each contributor shares their memories and experiences of working with - and knowing - this legendary artist.

Steven Parke is an award winning photographer. His clients have included fortune 1000 firms such as Warner Brothers, HBO, Discovery Channel, Arista Records, DC/Vertigo Comics, Houghton Mifflin, NBC and a-list entertainers such as Prince (13 years), David Bowie, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan and AC/DC. He currency works as in house photographer and photo editor for Enchanted Living Magazine.

In addition, Mr. Parke was the Digital artist for first of its kind Graphic Novel “I, Paparazzi” published by DC/Vertigo Comics which received a grade of A from Entertainment Weekly. He followed with “In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe” the first ever all digitally photographed graphic novel which was nominated alongside Stephen King and IDW’s “30 Days of Night” for YALSA’s best horror novel in 2005.

He has given talks to American Library Associations National Conference about graphic novels and emerging digital art forms. Most recently, Mr. Parke was the chief photographer and director for a leading edge graphic novel project, titled Medusa’s Daughter utilizing the “sequential photography” technique to tell a story. It is set to be released in three formats, as a graphic novel, a prose novel and a short form for reluctant and dyslexic readers.

His photo work has been shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art and galleries in Loa Angeles, New York Miami, Porto and London.

He lives in Frederick, MD