Dead Or Alive “Here’s Looking At You”
Photography Paul Cox
£43.00 without signed photo - £65.00 with signed photo
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This edition will be dispatch on the 3rd November 2025.
Pre-orders now being taken here at www.moonboy.space
Photography editors: Paul Cox & Fabrice Couillerot
Concept & design: Fabrice Couillerot
Captions: Paul Cox & Siân Pattenden
A Limited edition photo book of 1000 individually numbered copies of stunning images by Paul Cox from his photographic work with Dead or Alive, 1984-1990.
MOONBOY is excited to announce the publication of DEAD OR ALIVE “Here’s looking at you”, featuring 314 rare and some previously unpublished images by music photographer Paul Cox.
“Photo shoots with Pete Burns and Dead or Alive were fun, chaotic and always a challenge,” says Paul. “Between Pete and me, we created some visually striking images.”
The book features an exclusive interview with Paul about his time working with Pete Burns and the band, plus additional commentary to accompany the leading images. The book is published at a time when there is a renewed interest in excavating the British ‘80s pop scene and coincides with the 40th anniversary of ‘You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)’ reaching number one in the UK charts and becoming a smash worldwide. Paul Cox photographed the band from the start of their success and through his lens we see the evolution of Pete Burns’ decades-ahead style, which mirrored his singular vision for the band.
From Westwood to Galliano – the book also stands as a document to the more radical designers of the day, a time when fashion was rule-breaking – still inspired by punk – and had yet to be swallowed up by corporate economics and a safer aesthetic. Pete Burns lived for the camera and was at once feminine, masculine, vulnerable, fierce and beautiful. Post-New Romantic, with roots in Goth and Punk, but all glamour – his shape-shifting and visual inventiveness within the mainstream predated identity politics and the deconstructing of identifiable gender norms by decades. His acid wit and steely persona combined with his personal style created something absolutely unique, and never seen since.
Paul’s extensive range of work in the book ranges from exclusives from the video sets to live shots, through to album campaigns and Smash Hits cover shoots – where “The Very Odd Couple” Pete Burns and Morrissey posed together. There are also photos of Pete with his parents, never-before-seen notes scrawled on the back of contact sheets and unpublished press shots. This is a document of a fascinating time in cultural history featuring a rule-breaking artist.
Paul Cox has worked with a plethora of incredible artists from the late 1970s onwards including Echo and the Bunnymen, Motorhead, Dionne Warwick, David Bowie and Marc Bolan, Scott Walker, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, Boy George, Mick Jagger and Van Morrison. He has previously published THE CURE, “Stills”, also with Moonboy Publications, and “Simply Tina: Tina Turner Photographs” with Omnibus Press. He lives and works in South West London.
Specifications
The BOOK
Size: 170mm × 240mm
Pages: 224 threadsewn
Printed: offset in 5 colours (CMYK + one black for an amazing depth to the images + sealer) on 150gsm Magno Satin paper
Softback Cover: 300gsm Edixion Offset printed front and back in 4 colours
Dustjacket: 120gsm Munken Kristal Rough Silkweave emboss with Matrix Emboss one side, printed front (4 colours + 1 pantone)
314 photos (164 in black and white & 150 in colour)
Two colour POSTERS
Size: 480mm × 340mm flat
130gsm Magno Satin paper
2 BOOKMARKS
Size: 45 x 200mm
printed front and back in 4 colours on 300gsm Edixion Offset
A C-PRINT black and white PHOTO, strictly limited to 323 copies
signed and numbered by Paul Cox
(only available on this website for the customers who buy this option)
Size: 170 x 240mm
Total weight of the package: 815 grams
Printer: Empress London, UK
catalogue number: MOON 6
ISBN: 978 -1-7395970 - 5 - 4
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