In a Private Light – Diana Walker’s Photos of Steve Jobs

Diana Walker est une photographer du TIME qui à été pendant 20 ans la photographe officielle de la Maison Blanche pour le magazine. Au cours de sa carrière, elle a eu la chance de croiser la route de Steve Jobs qu’elle a photographiée à plusieurs reprise entre 1982 et 2004.

Photographs of Steve Jobs (from 1982 to 1994) by TIME’s photographer Diana Walker.

“I first met Steve Jobs on a photo shoot for TIME in 1982. I had no idea that he was going to be my friend or that he was going to be this incredible genius — a part of all our lives, in what we do and what we see. He was speaking to a group of Stanford students in a dorm living room, and it was hard to photograph him there and not be in the way. You had to have light, and I was creeping around. But he was game. I asked him to stand on top of an Apple sign, and he did it. I asked him to stand in front of an Apple cutout (which ended up on the cover of Fortune magazine), and he did that too. I thought, This is you. This is who you are.”

“He was so much fun because he was so quick — he was such a fast study. You showed him anything and he could get it in a second. I was always fascinated by his design sense. It was wonderful because he liked my pictures.”

“I really will miss his inventiveness, his ideas, his eyes — and how bright he was all over. He had some kind of electricity about him. He was very, very focused in the office. He demanded a lot of the people who worked for him. I’m sure Steve wasn’t the easiest person to work for, but what a fascinating person to work for.”

Jobs sits in his Woodside, California, home in 1982.

Jobs with the Lisa, an early — and revolutionary — Apple computer, in 1982.

Jobs presides over a lunchtime huddle with his design team at Apple’s headquarters in 1982.

Jobs has a laugh with John Lasseter of Pixar in the animation studio’s headquarters.

Jobs with his wife Laurene at their Palo Alto, California.

Jobs puts in a day at the office before heading to Boston’s 1997 Macworld Expo.

Lying on the floor after a long day, Jobs finalizes a deal with Bill Gates over the phone, whereby Microsoft would purchase $150 million worth of Apple stock.