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Madonna’s 1985 ascent is getting a new close-up.
Insight Editions is set to release “Madonna: Into the Groove: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen of Pop,” a new photo book built around the work of photographer Ken Regan, with text by Tomás Mier. The book focuses on a pivotal year in Madonna’s career, when “Like a Virgin,” “Material Girl,” “Desperately Seeking Susan,” the Virgin Tour and Live Aid helped turn her from rising pop star into global phenomenon.
Madonna: Into the Groove
The book includes intimate and archival images from Regan’s 1985 sessions with Madonna, including shoots at Le Mondrian in Los Angeles, where she posed in a hotel room, ballroom and gym. The interiors show Madonna in several mid-’80s looks: lace leggings, leotards, crucifixes, stacked bracelets, “Healthy Swimmer” styling and the punk-Catholic iconography that became central to her early image.
