THE UNDEFEATED – 20/03/2019
Jerry Bembry
The story of how the cover was created and why the photographer almost left
A classroom at New York’s School of Visual Arts might seem a rare place for Allen Iverson to pop up, but that’s what happened eight years ago when a magazine cover image of the Hall of Fame guard flashed on the screen during an editorial photography session. As Clay Patrick McBride showed his class the image of Iverson, the 1999 Slam magazine shot featuring Iverson with full ‘fro in effect, a student jumped to his feet.