Richard Corman on his new Madonna Exhibit

Iconic photographer Richard Corman remembers the first time he met Madonna. “[It was] in the summer of 1982 at her apartment on the Lower East Side,” he tells Rolling Stone.

“Prior to entering the building, I had to call her from a phone booth from across the street as she let me know, under no uncertain terms, that I was not to enter the building without her alerting all of the tenants due to a lot of illegal activity going on, on the stoop and on the ground floor – which she had no part in.”

Once inside, the burgeoning pop star offered him black coffee and gum on a silver-plated tray. “That was the introduction,” he recalls. “A few minutes later, we were moving about her apartment and I was photographing her in her kitchenette, at the stove, on her desk chair.”

The proto-street-style photos that resulted from the spontaneous shoot have never been seen… until now. As reported here on MadonnaTribe, last night at W Hotel Mexico City, the candid shots were unveiled to the public as part of a new traveling exhibit sponsored by the hotel group and Vitaminwater. Curated by Rock Paper Photo and Madonna’s manager, Guy Oseary, the installation presents Corman and George DuBose‘s photography juxtaposed against Alec Monopoly’s custom graffiti art. The exhibition will hit New York’s W Hotel in December.

Read the rest of this story on RollingStone.com and check out Corman and DuBose’s Madonna images on rockpaperphoto.com/madonna.