Prince: The Two-Volume Special Edition

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"""In the new two-volume book 'Prince: Collected Photographs,' published by ACC Art Books, Steve Parke throws open the doors to Prince's inner world.""

""Aside from a handful of images that were selected as promo shots, most of these pictures have remained unseen until now. But in his new two-volume book Prince: Collected Photographs, Parke throws open his extensive archive to let the world into the inner workings of the legend's visual process.""

""There are photos of Prince at his Paisley Park home and with his first wife Mayte Garcia and dog Mia; others show him messing about at a children's playground, or in different outfits that he'd cycle through in the same shoot, trying to find the vision that clicked.""

""And while the hundreds of images shown in Prince: Collected Works speak to the hefty expectations at Paisley Park ('You were put through the ringer a little bit with the number of hours you were awake and the amount of stuff you were expected to produce,' Parke laughs), the photographer's main takeaway, having spent the last years trawling his archives and remembering his storied time under Prince's employment, is of how much the artist cared about putting the time in.""" - Wallpaper """Over 570 of Parke's images now comprise Prince: The Two-Volume Special Edition from ACC Art Books. The special editions offer a rare glimpse into Prince as he was at Paisley Park, his home in Marbella, Spain, and with his first wife, Mayte Garcia, and their dog Mia.""

""Parke selected all the photographs from his personal archives. In doing so, it added another layer to the images themselves; the resulting pages were picked by someone who knew him, not a person far removed from Prince's life. There's an air of intimacy to the selections. Parke, with whom Prince was both a boss and a friend, is painting another portrait of the person through the nature of the photographs included in the books.""

""Prince: The Two-Volume Special Edition is perfect for fans of Prince and those intrigued by how an artist continues to reinvent themselves throughout the years. The collection is now available on the ACC Art Books website."" " - My Modern Met """As Prince's art director from 1988 to 2001, Parke did everything from design the Graffiti Bridge album cover to helm impromptu photo shoots in the pre-dawn hours at
Prince's Paisley Park complex. Now, on the 10th anniversary of Prince's death, he empties his archive in celebration of a five-year period, starting in 1996, during which he took
hundreds of portraits of His Royal Badness.""

""Retouched by Parke and often re-rendered in black and-white, these photos, too, are pristine, transcending the limitations of the early digital Nikon camera that Parke had at his disposal and belying the on-the-fly creativity fostered inside the purple kingdom. A slipcased special edition of Black, White, Color comes with a second collection, Shoot: Everything Else. Together they make for a lavishly presented, generous-hearted tribute to two creative minds working in harmony.""" - The Record Collector