David Bowie with his throne in publicity materials for his Reality album in 2003 Frank Ockenfels 3. Reprinted with permission from Abrams Books. Frank Ockenfels 3, one of commercial photography's most acclaimed pop-experimentalists, found perhaps his most essential and enduring subject in David Bowie. Their multi-decade working relationship has led to Collaboration, a volume that includes never-before-published shots of the iconic musician, who died of cancer in 2016. "This project was his idea," says Ockenfels, who first met Bowie in 1991 when he was fronting Tin Machine.