In 1979 while teaching nude photography in New York, Martin HM Schrieber came across a young life model by the name of Madonna Ciccone.
Long before she would rise to fame as "Madonna", he was paying her rent in New York by posing for a nude photography class at Parsons School of Design. She was 20 years old and, in Schrieber's memory, she was relaxed and composed and good at following direction. She wasn't a bad model, but she wasn't particularly spectacular either.
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