February 6, 2015


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Esther Anderson and Bob Marley embracing in Trinidad, 1973. Photo: Esther Anderson

Model and actress turned filmmaker Esther Anderson was the only one of Marley’s photographers (that we know of at least) to know her subject intimately. Here, the two embrace in a timer-aided self-portrait during a promotional visit to Trinidad with Chris Blackwell in 1973, shortly after The Wailers signed to Island Records. —LargeUp