Frank Stefanko shot this iconic photograph of Bruce Springsteen in 1978 in Haddonfield, New Jersey. He recalled the story behind one of his most popular images, Corvette Winter: “On the day of the shoot, Bruce pulled up in front of my house in a slick, 1960 Corvette. It was freezing cold, with vestiges of snow on the ground. But we decided to go out into the streets of Haddonfield in order to shoot some location shots in town.”
“When we walked out of the house, there was that gleaming Corvette. I said, ‘Why don’t you go over and lean on the hood?’ Bruce leaned on the hood, shot a glance back at me, and I snapped it. I only took one shot with that car. Little did I realize, that singular shot, called Corvette Winter (a play on a movie called Corvette Summer), would turn out to be my biggest selling, and most popular Springsteen photograph. It was later chosen to become the cover of Bruce’s autobiography.”
In the winter of 1978, Bruce Springsteen drove his Corvette to the quaint borough of Haddonfield. He pulled up to the home of Frank Stefanko, a meatpacker by day who snapped photos whenever he was off the clock. They’d been introduced by a mutual friend, Patti Smith, because Springsteen needed a cover for his album Darkness on the Edge of Town, his first in three years, and he wanted something very different from the photo on his last one, Born to Run, which features the rocker slyly grinning over his guitar. Below are some other photos from the Haddonfield session:
(Photos © by Frank Stefanko)
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