Laura Levine on Photographing Madonna!

I took it before she was famous in 1982, I think she had her first single coming out, and she was really game.
I knew nothing about her at the time.
She came over to my apartment in Chinatown and climbed up all the steps to the top.
I think some of the other pictures from that shoot are well known, but not the one in show.
She was a pleasure to work with and had a real sense of self even then.
I set that picture up by asking her to scream.