This official press photo was distributed in 1982 by CBS Records to promote Glass having become the first artist since Aaron Copeland to be signed to the prestigious CBS Masterworks label. 

Annie Liebowitz was commissioned to take the photo. 

Try to find another one like it in this condition! 

Glass had formed the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1968, but it wasn't until his opera, Einstein on the Beach (1976), that he achieved great critical and popular success. His first album for Masterworks, GLASSWORKS, tripled all sales projections, pleasing audiences, critics and Glass himself. 

This is a lucky find (or gift) for any completist Glass fan or collector of publicity shots of significant recording artists.