Sound waves rush forward with the force of a tsunami in Steve Steigman’s iconic “Blown Away.” Steigman (1942 – 2004), a business-savvy, visionary photographer known as “the father of modern self-promotion,” was a high school dropout with no photography education, who became one of the top advertising photographers of the 80s, and the first to open his own studio. The image, cemented in pop culture when Maxell used it to advertise the brawn of its audio cassettes in the 1980s has been revived by Maxell in connection with its audio accessories and X Games sponsorship.

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