Michael Tighe Is Clean, Sober and Re-Energized

The Washington Post catches up with a longtime photographer of New York's cultural elite.

The black and white photo of Mike Wallace, taken in 1975, shows the late 60 Minutes legend in a snappy criss-cross pattern suit, leaning against an office TV and standing to the right of an overflowing floor-to-ceiling bookcase. Another shot, from 1974, frames Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown simply, in a chair.

Both are by Michael Tighe (pictured), a longtime photographer of New York media, art, fashion and literary figures who today prefers to point his lens at the non-famous.

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