Jay-Z, 1988
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In 1988 Timothy White was hired by EMI to photograph the rapper Jaz-O on the roof of his New York building, with a rented black panther and the skyline behind him. Midway through, a young man dressed in red and wearing a truckload of gold chains walked onto the roof. It was Jay-Z, then 18, Jaz-O's protege and collaborator on what would become his first single. White brought him into the frame, then shot him alone, sensing "he would one day be important." A shot of Jaz-O with the panther became the cover of his 1989 album Word to the Jaz.
Because the session was filed under Jaz-O, White forgot it for decades. When he printed this image and hung it in the gallery on a Friday; by Sunday, Jay-Z had bought it.
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