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Robert Whitman

Robert Whitman is a Minneapolis-born, New York-based photographer, best known as the first professional photographer to shoot Prince, in 1977.

Nov 11, 2025

ChopinHOST
23:02
When he was playing music around, like when you were hearing him play music, did you hear him play anything that never actually ended up coming out? Oh,
23:11
he's got numerous, numerous, numerous stuff that has never been out, that's in a vault.
23:20
I mean, so there's a lot of... a lot of stuff that's hidden away.
23:25
But did you hear anything when you were taking pictures? No, no.
23:32
I saw it when his manager picked me up to try to introduce me to him.
23:38
And he was playing this song, Soft and Wet.
23:40
That's his...

10 MINS LATER

ChopinHOST
34:04
point in photography? So in photography, what was your journey from the initial conversation with Prince's manager to actually getting there on the day, photographing, how would you prepare? How did you start off in photography? How did you start off in photography? How did you discover it?

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