John Lennon signs an autograph for his killer Mark Chapman hours before the murder on 8 December 1980. Photograph: Paul Goresh/UPI, Popperfoto.
The flash-lit picture, snapped 30 years ago on a Manhattan street, froze a notoriously sinister moment. Amateur photographer and Beatles fan Paul Goresh had captured the first encounter between John Lennon and the killer who would, a few hours later, end the star’s life. Goresh could not guess the significance of the scene when his camera shutter flickered, still less could he have predicted the impact it was to have on his life.
