Rare Pictures Thread

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Director Spike Lee will use several of Garcia's photos to illustrate his documentary "Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall," which premieres January 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Image 1 of 13 Michael Jackson singer poses for Reggie Garcia in front of a large wardrobe mirror nearly a decade before he recorded “Man in the Mirror.” Spike Lee uses this image in his new documentary “Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall.” Garcia's new book "My Day With Michael Jackson” featured 13 of his photos of the 19-year-old Jackson.

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Image 2 of 13 This is one of Reggie Garcia’s photos director Spike Lee uses to illustrate his documentary “Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall,” which premieres January 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival. Garcia asked Michael to react as if he was reading a break-up letter.

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Image 3 of 13 Randy Jackson in the foreground and reflected in the mirror, while Michael gets his hair ready for the video shoot at Sunset Gower Studios, March 1978. Photographer Reggie Garcia found his photos in his attic four decades after spending a day with The Jacksons.

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Image 4 of 13 Michael Jackson and brothers Jackie, Tito, Marlon, Randy spent a day at Hollywood’s Sunset Gower Studios in March, 1978, make a music video. Reggie Garcia was invited to photograph The Jacksons, but he put the images away in his attack until over 40 years later.

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Image 5 of 13 Michael Jackson seemed to enjoy his session with Reggie Garcia. He was relaxed and cooperative as Garcia snapped away. This is one of the few that have ever been published and only then in a CNN story in 2011 by Lead Stories’ editor in Chief Alan Duke


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Image 6 of 13 Michael Jackson was an easy subject to work with, Reggie Garcia says about his day photographing the singer. Garcia asked Jackson to pose as he was reading a break-up letter while he snapped away. The result is a remarkable series of images of Michael just before his career began another phase with his “Off The Wall” album.


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Image 7 of 13 Michael Jackson was in the final months of his teen years when Reggie Garcia spent a day photographing him and his brothers in March 1978. Michael would soon perform as the Scarecrow in “The Wiz” film, where he would meet producer Quincy Jones.

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Image 8 of 13 Reggie Garcia’s camera captured a 19-year-old Michael Jackson in 1978, just before his stardom would grow exponentially. He was just meeting Quincy Jones, who would produce three huge albums for him, starting the next year with “Off The Wall.” That's brother Tito in the background.

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Image 9 of 13 Reggie Garcia took advantage of downtime during the March 1978 video shoot to photograph Michael Jackson alone on black and white film. This is one of several frames taken while Michael sat in a director’s chair near several large mirrors that Garcia knew would help create memorable images.

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Image 10 of 13 Michael, Marlon, Tito, Randy and Jackie Jackson gathered off set in the make up room at Sunset Gower Studios. The Jacksons were in the middle of their “Goin’ Places” tour in March 1978 when Reggie Garcia was called to photograph the group.


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Image 11 of 13 This is another photo of Michael Jackson that has never before been published. It is one of 13 "forgotten" images from the March 1978 photo shoot by Reggie Garcia that are included in the photographers' new book "My Day With Michael Jackson."


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Image 12 of 13 Most of Reggie Garcia’s photos are black and white, but this is color image was taken while Michael Jackson was on set singing. It has never been published before until now. Garcia rediscovered this and about 70 others in a box in his attic more than 40 years after he spent a day photographing Michael and his brothers in March 1978.


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Image 13 of 13 Reggie Garcia was a college student who worked as a freelance photographer when he got the call of a lifetime to photograph Michael Jackson and his brothers during a video shoot in Hollywood, California, in March 1978. He’s sharing 13 of his remarkable images in a book he titled “My Day With Michael Jackson.”

 

he runs so sexy :woohoo::woohoo::dribble: :in_love:

edit: just saw all the fans in the background :bugeyed: holy shit!! and there's nothing/no one holding them back?? FUUUCK!! RUN MICHAEL RUN :eek:
 
I thought those pictures with Cher, Bette Midler, etc in1983 was the only occassion Michael and David met publicly. I wonder if those pics with the brothers are in 1974-75. David had that look around those years.

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I think the Ebony article they came from said 74. Tito and DeeDee threw a party for David and his wife and Michael showed them how to do the robot.
 
These are rare to me. Isn't he the most adorablle thing ever when he smiles? :girl_love:


With Max, Bruce Swedien's Great Dane.

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holy shit! :bugeyed: yikes!! :bugeyed: I would gtfo when a dog that size, that's ****ing scary. but he was scared of little dogs? to me, he's so adorable, he so freakin cute :wub:
 
Barbee, you were right about the year the pictures were taken and there was indeed a party at Tito's house but not for David, Al Green instead.

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A bigger version with David and Randall.

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AWWW, his smile! :girl_love:

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Barbee, you were right about the year the pictures were taken and there was indeed a party at Tito's house but not for David, Al Green instead.

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A bigger version with David and Randall.

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AWWW, his smile! :girl_love:

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Aah, thank you! I wonder if David "crashed" the party. LOL.
And wow-even Jack IN the Box was a guest at Hayvenhurst. :)

(That smile IS adorable)
 
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