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JAY-Z
New York City, 2007
PHOTOGRAPHER DANNY CLINCH SAYS: I was shooting a six-page cover story on Jay-Z. It was one of the few jobs that I shot digitally, and so I have the time code — 12 minutes from the minute he walked in to the last shot. I photographed him through the shape of the microphone spit guard. We took the screen out and just hung some microphones up, and the picture looks like a classic Blue Note Records album cover.