Afshin Shahidi, a photographer who spent more than 20 years taking intimate, candid photos of Prince, is releasing a book of some never-before-seen photos.
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The book, Prince, a Private View, will be released Wednesday, according to ABC News.
“The album covers for me … are what I was most proud of,” Shahidi told ABC. “I still, to this day, when I see the album cover, I think, ‘Wow … I took that picture.’ Makes me really happy.”
Shahidi, who is also the proud father of actress Yara Shahidi, said that the Purple One supported Yara’s acting career, renting out a movie theater to watch her on-screen when she got one of her first roles. He was also apparently a fan of her work on Black-ish.
“Two months before he passed, he had … sent her a private message just saying, ‘I, I love your show, ‘Black-ish,’ and your character’s one of my favorite characters on the show,’” Afshin Shahidi recalled. “And, ‘Say hi to your pops.’”
He added, “After he passed … they went into Prince’s office and there’s a picture of Yara in his office still,” he said. “And if you go in there, you’ll see a[n] … 8-by-10 picture of Yara, sitting on his desk.”
“It was incredible,” he said.
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