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was an American fashion photographer and director, known for his photographs of celebrities, models and others in the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black and white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculptures.

After he photographed Brooke Shields for the cover of Elle, Olivia Newton-John for her Physical album and Madonna for her album True Blue, he started to work for the first time with Tina Turner for her album Break Every Rule in 1986. Since then, he was responsible for the cover pictures for Foreign Affair in 1989 (only center picture), Simply The Best in 1991, What’s Love Got To Do With It in 1993 and again for Tina’s last studio album Twenty Four Seven in 1999. He also directed the wonderful music video for Way Of The World in black and white and he photographed the cover picture for Tina’s first biography I, Tina in 1986.

are presented since 1952 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize achievements in the music industry. Tina Turner won her first Grammy in 1971 as part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue for Proud Mary and her first solo Grammy in 1985 for What’s Love Got To To With It. In total she won 7 Grammys from 25 nominations and received also 3 Hall of Fame Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award. Ike Turner solo won his first Grammy in 2007 for the album Risin’ With The Blues, after he was first nominated in 1970 for the album A Black Man’s Soul.