Johnny Cash Before He Made It Big

My friend Robert Stein tips us to a new show opening in London next week featuring photographs of Johnny Cash taken by Stein's friend the late great Marvin Koner for Corbis that show the American singing legend not with a life-scarred face but as a smooth-skinned 27-year-old on the brink of stardom.

Koner pioneered the era of available-light photography that, as Stein notes, "transformed pictures in magazines from frozen images with studio lighting to exciting depictions of life in motion, just as movies were moving from Hollywood sound stages to the grainy reality of Italian Neorealism and the French Nouvelle Vague."