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Madonna photo book shows a star about to be famous, the previously forgotten images shot in a single day in 1983

Photographer Richard Corman’s book Madonna 66 shows never-before-seen photos of the singer, then 24, six weeks before the release of the eponymous debut album that would turn propel her to megastardom

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Madonna on the roof of her brother’s flat in this Polaroid image, one of 66 shot by photographer Richard Corman on June 17, 1983, and published in a new book, Madonna 66.
Kylie Knott

A new limited-edition photography book turns the lens on a young Madonna before she hit global fame.

Madonna 66 comprises images taken on June 17, 1983, by New Yorker Richard Corman (among his other subjects have been Nelson Mandela, Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Tilda Swinton). Over one day Corman photographed Madonna in five different scenes at her brother’s flat. The 66 Polaroids depict the singer, then 24, just six weeks before the release of her debut album, Madonna.

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Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
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Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
Madonna poses for Richard Corman.
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