Champions in the Room

The archive is not only musicians. Magic Johnson is there — five NBA championships, three Finals MVP awards, a Hall of Fame career, and a post-retirement business portfolio studied as a model for athlete ownership. So is Shaquille O'Neal, four-time champion, fifteen-time All-Star, and a working DJ under the name DJ Diesel.

Others follow: Steve Smith, NBA champion and Olympic gold medalist; Simeon Rice, Super Bowl XXXVII champion and filmmaker; Booger McFarland, two-time Super Bowl champion and ESPN analyst; boxing figures Floyd Mayweather Sr. and Andre Berto.

Entertainment and sport have shared the same rooms for decades, and the crossover runs in both directions. The photographs record a producer moving inside that overlap.