14 DAY TRIAL // Rare pictures of Apple Chief Executive Officer, Steve Jobs taken in August 2004 have emerged on the Internet, several high-profile publications are reporting. The images are the work of Time Magazine contract photographer Diana Walker, whom Jobs allowed to immortalize him in several key areas of his Palo Alto residence.
Fortune reminds Apple fans that on July 31, 2004, Steve Jobs underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumor from his pancreas.
As the story goes, he permitted Diana Walker, his favorite Time Magazine contract photographer, to shoot him in his Palo Alto home, just a few weeks later.
Six years down the drain and the world gets its first glimpse at Steve Jobs sitting down at his work desk in front of his personal Macintosh computer.
According to Fortune, only one of these photos were used by TIME to illustrate Apple CEO's "people who mattered" entry in the 2004 issue that named George W. Bush Person of the Year.
The photos reportedly surfaced in Getty Images' archives only recently. From there, allaboutstevejobs.com took over the job to show them to the world.
Authored by Romain Moisescot, the web site is, more or less, a virtual shrine to Apple’s CEO.
“It is not officially affiliated with Apple Inc., the Walt Disney Company, or Steven P. Jobs in any way. It is just the private website of an individual about his personal hero,” Moisescot writes.
“Its sole aim is to provide detailed information and multimedia content about Steve Jobs and his work at Apple, NeXT, Pixar and Disney,” Moisescot adds.
“Despite all the work that went into other parts of the website, including the much-copied biography of Steve by its webmaster Romain, all about Steve Jobs.com's biggest source of fame is probably its one-minute video, Boom!, which totaled close to 700,000 views on YouTube to date (the website's channel total views are well over 2 million),” Moisescot concludes.