Picturing Prince - Steve Parke

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. At least 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.

Alongside these remarkable
images are fifty engaging, poignant and often funny written vignettes by
Parke, which reveal the very human man behind the reclusive superstar:
from shooting hoops to renting out movie theatres at 4am; from midnight
requests for camels to meaningful conversations that shed light on
Prince as a man and artist.

STEVE PARKE started working with
Prince in 1988, after a mutual friend showed Prince some of Steve's
photorealistic paintings. He designed everything 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 began
photographing Prince at the request of the star himself, and continued
to do so for the next several years. The images in this book are the
arresting result of this collaboration.