Henry Leutwyler's Neverland Lost

You all know Henry Leutwyler from his celebrated Vogue, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, and Esquire photos. Well, some of my new all-time favorite MICHAEL JACKSON images are on display at the Foley Gallery on West 28th Street in NYC www.foleygallery.com. I revealed my Michael Jackson scrapbooks (circa 1973) in an embarrassing post last year, so you can only imagine how much I now covet one of these photos...

Henry was granted unprecedented access to MJ's (I can call him that) personal items and pieces of his stage costumes--like THE GLOVE. His images are stark and strangely moving; you see well-worn clothing, complete with makeup stains, and learn that those famous sparkly socks were ordinary white tube socks bedazzled with rhinestones. I guess they weren't magical after all...

The show opened this past Thursday, so you only have till the April 2nd to make your pilgrimage. It's a moving peek into Michael Jackson's troubled world.