There is no doubt in my mind that President-elect Donald Trump will be good for photographers. They will no longer be unemployed at the end of the week for the next four years. At the end of every day, photographers will bring a new presidential story to their newspaper or magazine or website, and we …
It was 1987. The weather was brilliant in the south of France. The couple was on holiday in Cap d’Antibes. The glamorous Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc. The perfect setting. I had arrived to photograph the illustrious Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and his beautiful wife, Sarah Brightman. When we met, Sir Andrew looked at me like he …
Before he became Muhammad Ali, before he won his first world title fight against Charles “Sonny” Liston in Miami in February 1964, before he influenced a generation of young men to resist fighting in Vietnam, before he became the most well-known, revered, and respected athlete in the world, he was Cassius Clay. I was in Miami …
In 1984 I was given what I consider to be a very interesting assignment from LIFE magazine, quite challenging and possibly of historic value: to photograph all 23 living descendants of the presidents of the United States. The children included—if you can imagine the contrast-—Francis Grover Cleveland, whose father was president when the Statue of …
President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy made an official visit to London and Paris in the early summer of 1961, after JFK had been elected to office the previous November. As it turned out London and Paris belonged not to the president but to his wife, Jackie, who was only 31 years old at the …
We first met in 1966 when Ronald Reagan was running for Governor of California with his beautiful wife by his side. Then in 1976, I traveled through New Hampshire with the governor, with Nancy Reagan again by his side, as he campaigned for the Republican nomination for president. Theirs was a grueling schedule, campaigning nonstop from …
The editor francine crescent told me they were sending a beautiful young woman to be the model for the entire December 1976 Christmas issue of French Vogue, which I was to photograph. The fantasy theme of the issue, to be edited by the French film director Roman Polanski, was based on Polanski’s upcoming film about …