#picturingprince

[yasminprince]

Prince 😍😎🤩

[enchantedliving]

Picturing Prince

Today we’re celebrating the publication of Faerie Magazine's photo editor Steve Parke's gorgeous new tome, Picturing Prince: An Intimate Portrait, out today in the UK and around the world from Cassell/Hachette! (The U.S. edition will be out in September and features 16 bonus pages! And translation rights were just sold to Italy and Japan, too!)

Here's a copy of the book hanging out in a Baltimore bar:

You can order Steve's book from Amazon.co.uk no matter where you are: http://amzn.to/2nOvPwy. And of course find it wherever books are sold. There's a beautiful intro from Sheila E., too (as it happens, back in the late '80s it was bass player Levi Seacer Jr. -- whom Steve met through Sheila -- who introduced Steve to Prince, sharing Steve's art with the Purple One until he broke down and hired him)! The book has over 100 photos, many of which have never been seen, plus a number of charming vignettes about what it was like working, day after day, with Prince. Steve worked as art director at Paisley Park from the late 80s until around 2001 (and did things like the album art for Graffiti Bridge, all done by hand) and some years into it the two rented a new digital camera and did many off-the-cuff shoots around Paisley Park. It was the early days of digital cameras and Prince loved being able to control his own images and get immediate results for the first time. A lot of experimenting took place! Here's the back cover, with Prince dribbling a basketball (he'd dared Steve to catch it on film, he was so fast):

And some more images from the book!

[amari-3-18]

Steve Parke’s Picturing Prince is the Purple Spotlight for Episode 34 Amari Purple Talk. Download and listen on your favorite podcast platform. Amari Purple Talk Episode 34: http://amaripurpletalk.libsyn.com/amari-purple-talk-episode-34-vault-economics #prince #podcast #picturingprince #steveparke #photography https://www.instagram.com/p/B_AUe7olizK/?igshid=cq4k54vz4zyy

[uartslibraries]

Picturing Prince: An Intimate Portrait

by Steve Parke

Call # ML420 .P974 P27 2017

[faroutchick]

Picturing Prince: An Intimate Portrait by Steve Parke: Used- 2017- HC BOOK 9781844039692 | eBay

PICTURING PRINCE- BY STEVE PARKE. FORWARD BY SHELIA E. HARDCOVER BOOK. CONDITION: VERY GOOD. 16 PAGES OF LOST MATERIAL NEWLY DISCOVERED IN AUTHORS ARCHIVE. 240 PAGES. | eBay!

Picturing Prince: An Intimate Portrait by Steve Parke: Used- 2017- HC BOOK 

[thefashiondarling]

The miniature purple one with his pet pooch in his garden at #paisleypark I really want to think said hound was called Toto but I can’t remember!!! #picturingprince by #SteveParke is a must see exhibition on now at #proudgallery #london #saradarling #kaftan #fashion #eighties #mynameisprince #dogsofinstagram 💜💜💜 (at Proud Galleries)

[thefashiondarling]

Prince getting his braids did! #legend #photography #exhibition #steveparke #picturingprince #purplerain #proudgallery #london #portraitphotography #paisleypark #saradarling #culturevulture (at Proud Galleries)

[iamjessemartinz]

#Repost from @steve.parke#PicturingPrince Number 14!! @washingtonpost (at Ellis Golf Course)