Bruce Fleming: A Life Exposed

Photographs: Bruce Fleming

Text: Robin Fleming

Bruce Fleming: A Life Exposed is the long overdue retrospective of an amazing individual’s photographic and spoken account from the 1950s to the present day. Fleming is an acclaimed photographer whose prolific work spans six decades. Circling the globe, the London-based Fleming’s exhibitions, international awards and celebrity archives have garnered a devoted following and his work is owned by the likes of Sir Elton John and included in the likes of the Osbourne Collection.

A Life Exposed is the brainchild of Bruce’s daughter, Robin Fleming Bruce’s daughter, a marketing executive and writer living in Hollywood, California. She is a regular contributor to music and street-style magazines including Juice and Thrasher, and her concept provides a unique take on a unique individual.

Their collaboration also brings together the timeless images and many candid stories from behind the lens, featuring an amazing cross-section of sports, screen and music celebrities including boxer Joe Frazier, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, jazz greats Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz and the incomparable Jimi Hendrix, a personal friend of Fleming’s. This fascinating 192-page book with more than 150 images is an intimate account of recent history.

With exclusive interviews and never-seen-before images, it includes a foreword from Eric Burdon of The Animals and contributions from Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.