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...your normal teenage pastimes, but Koop managed to avoid being the science nerd with a slide rule in his back pocket. He was on the wrestling, football and baseball teams, editor of the school paper and president of the student council. He went on to Dartmouth and Cornell University Medical College, completing his training at the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. He surprised many people when he decided to specialize in pediatric surgery, a decidedly low-rent field in those days, when the real brains were going into neurosurgery. "Children weren't getting a fair shake in surgery, getting giant...
Accompanying the profile of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in this week's issue of TIME is a photograph taken by Robert Mapplethorpe. It is a particularly apt pairing of artist and subject: Koop has been one of the most outspoken leaders in the fight against AIDS, and Mapplethorpe, an AIDS sufferer since 1984, by publicizing his illness helped raise awareness of the disease in New York City art circles and beyond...
...Koop and Mapplethorpe were brought together by Linda Freeman, assistant to TIME art director Rudy Hoglund. First she secured Koop's willingness to be photographed by Mapplethorpe, whose erotic images often overshadowed his iconographic portraits of celebrities and his still lifes. "Although Mapplethorpe had always wanted to shoot an assignment for TIME, his studio informed us that he was too ill to go to Washington," Freeman says. So Koop agreed to come to Manhattan...
...session in Mapplethorpe's loft lasted only about an hour, but it filled the studio with powerful, unspoken emotions. Koop, a strapping man in uniform, seemed the epitome of physical strength. Mapplethorpe, pale, coughing and looking emaciated, moved about in obvious pain as he worked. "It was a poignant experience to have my picture taken by a man dying of a disease that I've spent so much time trying to educate the public about," recalls Koop...
...engaged in small talk about Koop's busy schedule and Mapplethorpe's latest exhibition, organized by Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art. "Robert had been thrilled about the prospect of shooting Koop," says Anne Kennedy, the photographer's agent. "He had enormous respect for him and his compassion for people suffering from AIDS. He really rallied to do this. He had been spending most days in bed." Out of respect for the Surgeon General's well-known views on smoking, Mapplethorpe hid his cigarettes before Koop arrived...