Lynn Goldsmith – Michael Jackson, 1984

Michael Jackson. I was assigned to do a cover shoot with Michael for life Magazine at Disney World in Orlando. The Epcot Center was coded to the public so he could have privacy. The Disney people treated Michael as if he was Mickey Mouse reincarnated. I set up the lights and waited. His manage, Frank DiLeo told me Michael was out doing his door-to-door work as a Jehovah’s Witness. He was more than two hours late. How could Michael not think about all the people who’d traveled to Florida with their families for what might be their only vacation of the year and had to wait for the park to reopen? The moment he arrived he saw on my face how upset I was and said in his super-sweet voice. “Oh Lynn, you are so beautiful.” He smiled. My anger melted. I was a goner, Michael had star power.

Lynn Goldsmith’s imagery is in numerous collections: The Smithsonian, The Polaroid Collection, The Kodak Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the permanent collection of Museum Folkwang. She is a multi-awarded portrait photographer whose work has appeared on and between the covers of Life, Newsweek, Time, Rollingstone, Sports Illustrated, People, Elle, Interview, The New Yorker, etc. Her subjects have varied from entertainment personalities to sports stars, from film directors to authors, from the extra-ordinary to the ordinary man on the street.

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