I started taking pictures as a 14 year old. It wasn't until I was 15 that I discovered music. So photography is really my first love in terms of mediums. Jonathan Burger went through about 5,000 of the images that I had on my computer and he picked 35 or 34 images that he thought represented me as a visual artist. The first book is the third book with Tilda Swinton on the cover is my Pandemic book. And it is a little bit like me in third grade not being able to read the clock quite right.
Michael Stipe joins to talk about his remarkable life, photography practice, and career as the lead singer and lyricist for the band R.E.M.