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Madonna's nude photo shoot from 1979
When New York photographer Martin Schreiber paid $30 for a shoot with an unknown dance school student named Madonna Ciccone, he couldn't have guessed what would happen next. But six years later, at the beginning of her stellar career, he realised what he had in his hands and the session was famously published in Playboy magazine in September 1985.
The Madonna Nudes - 30th Anniversary exhibition, at 19 Earlham Street WC2 (July 2 - 19), coinciding with the now 50-year old star's Sticky and Sweet tour dates in London, shows her as she was when aged just 20. The black and white series of photographs are on sale from £3400, along with the first showing of the original Polaroid test shot, a one-off predicted to fetch in excess of £40,000, beating the $37,500 achieved at auction earlier this year for the Lee Friedlander shot which also appeared in the 1985 Playboy.
