We made this photograph of Prince in the mid eighties at the American Music Awards. He was a new artist and everyone was excited about seeing him at the show.

We took performance, backstage and arrival photos that evening and nothing really stood out except this photograph. Because we were shooting for the producer, Dick Clark we had all access to the show. That is all fine, but sometimes that is all overkill when it comes to making an iconic photograph. The best and most iconic foto of the evening can be the first photo of them arriving that you share with the entire dog pack.

Kind of like when Galella would wait outside a party and after a thousand inside photographs the star would emerge from the back door and he would do his magic for thirty seconds. Those Galella photographs were the ones to grace the pages of People the following week!