In pictures: Photos of Madonna for “Playboy” exhibited for the first time in France

From June 28 to October 2, 2022, the Galerie de l'Instant, in Paris, is exhibiting a series of photos of Madonna taken in 1985 in Japan, when she was presenting her second album,

at the time .

Photographer Kenji Wakasugi only had 45 minutes with the Madonna to capture this series for

magazine .

The prints are exhibited for the first time in France.

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• In 1985, Madonna traveled to Japan for the first time to promote her second album,

  Like a Virgin

  .

• During the stay, the Japanese photographer Kenji Wakasugi has only 45 minutes to shoot with the young singer for

  Playboy

  magazine .

• A lapse of time finally sufficient to capture the birth of an icon.

• The Madonna already masters her image, the intensity of her gaze, the insolence, and the power of her character.

• The prints from the series are exhibited for the first time in France, 37 years after the shoot.

• The images now take on a whole new dimension with regard to the career of the star, and the evolution of successive fashions.

• "I discovered this partially unpublished series thanks to the research work of Nick Groarke, an English publisher who found these images and decided to publish a limited edition book of this session: 'Adore'" explains Julia Gragnon, the manager of the Galerie de l'Instant, in a press release.

• Other news, we now know that Madonna will have the honors of a biopic in the cinema in 2023. The American magazine

  Variety

  recently revealed that it is the young actress Julia Gardner (

  Ozark

  series ) who will play the Madonna.

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