Mick Rock (1948-2021), the sardonically self-described "godfather of rock photography," captioned the images that appear in Shot! by Rock, but aside from the odd photo of a cat or a kid, he needn't have provided his subjects' names: readers will recognize practically every mug. He snapped a young David Bowie, the newborn Sex Pistols and a baby-faced Ozzy Osbourne. As Rock boasts, and with good reason, "I can make anyone look like a poet." Lou Reed's Transformer, the Stooges' Raw Power and Joan Jett's I Love Rock 'n' Roll are among the standard-bearing album covers that Rock shot, and most of the other photos reproduced here--spanning 1968 to 2021, some in black and white but most glisteningly supersaturated--could have served the same purpose. --Nell Beram, author and freelance writer