Cher, Little Joe, Clint Eastwood Photographed by Gay Photographer Jack Robinson

Jack Robinson photographed some of the most iconic figures in entertainment in the 1960s and '70s. Then he disappeared.

BY Diane Anderson-Minshall

September 17 2012 11:20 AM ET

This photo, from the Jack Robinson Archive, shows the Jack Robinson in New Orleans in the 1950s. He went to the city to attend Tulane University but ended up as a portrait photographer for the city's elite as well as a reporting on nightlife and Mardi Gras during the gay-friendly proto-beatnik era of Tennessee Williams.