Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, was a superstar ofunprecedented and epic proportions, and is still the bestsellingrecording artist of all time.

An icon raised in the spotlight, but ever reclusive andterribly shy, Jackson was the ideal subject for paparazzoextraordinaire Ron Galella, the nation’s most famous celebrityphotojournalist. Galella shot Michael from his early daysin the Jackson 5 right up to the weeks before his untimelydeath. Finding intimate moments with the legend offstage, hecaptured candid, beautiful, unguarded portraits of the manbehind the mask and a lifetime of style and glamour.

Over the years Galella also captured Michael in the companyof fellow celebrities—drawn, like Galella himself, to thebiggest and brightest star of them all—including MuhammadAli, Diana Ross, Chuck Berry, Brooke Shields, Jane Fonda,Liberace, Quincy Jones, Barry Manilow, Emmanuel Lewis, LizaMinnelli, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Sophia Loren, SylvesterStallone, Ted Kennedy, Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, Donald Trump, Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna,and Marcel Marceau. He was able to find the personal sideof Michael in images of him with his children, his sisterJanet and the rest of the Jackson family, and even his petchimpanzee, Bubbles.

In a tribute to the life and memory of Michael Jackson,Galella has compiled his comprehensive body of images ofthe King of Pop for the first time ever in Man in the Mirror:Michael Jackson.