Bob Gruen made some of the most iconic images in rock history and says he never once knew it when he clicked the shutter

I sat down with Bob Gruen recently and asked whether he ever recognized a legendary frame when he took it. The Lennon NYC t-shirt. Sid Vicious. Zeppelin on the tarmac.

He didn't. Not once.

What he says about the gap between clicking the shutter and knowing what you actually got reframes how I think about that body of work entirely. The stories behind how those specific photos happened are not what I expected.

Curious what this community makes of it.