The journalist Gilles Verlant said of him "His subject of study is himself. Bowie is also a myth." Musician, painter, actor, singer, David Bowie had gone beyond the stage of living legend to reach the universal recognition of his work. An icon coming from elsewhere that never ceased to surprise and surprise us, to (re) discover in our selection of works.

• David Bowie is

A superb album published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition at the Philarmonie de Paris which through its pages gives you access to an incredible collection of photos, including numerous objects (notes, drafts, costumes ...) among the 75,000 stored since decades by the David Bowie Archive.

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• David Bowie by Gilles Verlant Edition Albin Michel

Gilles Verlant, a rock journalist, devoted a biography to him, portraying a protean artist whose achievements testify to a personal and innovative achievement: "Bowie is an outsider and is convinced that a questioning constant allows man to surpass his contemporaries. "

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• Rebel Rebel by Chris O'Leary

A kind of "bible" for fans of David Bowie, who will find in it - and in English - everything they want to know, everything they do not know. This book exhaustively puts all the music of Bowie in its historical context. As for example the links between Kubrick 2001 and "Space Oddity", or how A Clockwork Orange inspired "Suffragette City" ... A journey through the different lives of Bowie.

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• When David Inventa Bowie of Haddon Hall (BD at Gallimard)

This comic strip tells the story of David Bowie, with his wife and friends, in an old house called "Haddon Hall", under the mischievous pen of Nejib. The whole band then tries to live according to the hippie community ideal. Between conflicts of ego, difficulties of everyday life and collective artistic projects, it will be for better or for worse ...

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• David Bowie: A strange fascination with David Buckley Flammarion edition

Disk after disc, step by step, the reader thus penetrates into the artist's universe, with its influences, its parts of shadow, its drifts its ambiguities ... Punctuated by testimonies, this book tries to penetrate the one who was and will remain "the last pop icon" of the twentieth century.

@ Cover book David Bowie a strange fascination

Photo of rising from the work of April Maciborka "The famous photos of star revisited by children".