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Steve Jobs photo outtakes, 1984
Norman Seeff, known for his celebrity photography, shared with Retronaut some outtakes from a 1984 photo shoot with Steve Jobs and the Macintosh design team. The photo shoot produced the iconic photo of Steve Jobs holding a Mac on his lap, which landed on the cover of Time Magazine and the book jacket of Walter Isaacson's biography. These newly released shots show a casual Steve Jobs at home and in his office. Seeff describes the events surrounding each photo, and it seems this project was a gathering of good friends, instead of a formal photo shoot. Instead of portraying Jobs as a demanding leader, Seeff's photos present a personable side of the young Steve Jobs. You can view the photo collection at Retronaut's website. If you want to find out more about the 1984 photo shoot, you can also read an earlier interview in which Ray Basile of iPhone Savior talks to Seeff at length about his time photographing Apple.
Steve Jobs and the Mac team, photographed by Norman Seeff
I really like these photos of Steve Jobs and the early Mac gang, taken by Norman Seeff. You may have seen one of them on the front cover of Time magazine, not to mention on the back cover of Jobs's recent biography. It's great how these photos show just how young and carefree Jobs and company once were, hacking away on computers that they then sold directly to other young and carefree computer users. The people in these photos aren't corporate billionaires or marketing geniuses just yet -- they're just having fun making cool stuff. But at the same time, I do see a little glint in Steve's eye, a realization that by posing with his computer on his lap in front of a fireplace with a beer next to him, he's got the opportunity to be "different" from everyone else out there. These were taken after Bill Gates's hilarious photos, and you get the sense that Jobs already knows history is watching. Great photos for sure. Thanks, Elizabeth!
