During his Big Apple days, his pictures were printed in magazines including Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Time, Omni and Penthouse.

"In New York, I gained great photographic knowledge," Kennedy said, "I kept working for better and better people all of whom I learned from. Then I began meeting people in the entertainment business and getting assignments from them".

He began shooting high fashion photography, something he learned with time to abhor.

"Fashion and advertising were much the same thing." Said the man with shoulder-length, black and gray hair, "It was away from my space."

"I felt fashion was anti-women. In shooting fashion, you have a make-up artist, stylist, and a whole slew of other people. You are creating a illusion, and all those people interfere with what I am doing. We were creating a non-reality, women that cannot exist in real life.

"I didn't enjoy the process or the end result. Those pictures must screw up women's heads," Kennedy said.

He had the same opinion of advertising, it was trying to sell people things they didn't need.

Kennedy switched from fashion and advertising work to photographing album covers for the music industry, something to which he felt more attuned.

"In music you are dealing with the real person," Kennedy said. This was the first commercial work that I really had fun with.

Often, it is me, an assistant to help with the camera and the real subject - as is. "You don't have people telling you what someone should or shouldn't look like. It's just say, Willie Nelson hanging out on a motorcycle", he said.

Nelson is just one of a slew of musicians Kennedy photographed from classical to pop. Others include Chet Atkins, Bob Dylan, the Charlie Daniels Band, Julian Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, along with Pinchas Zuckerman and Isaac Stern.

Isaac Stern? "Yes, he's a wonderful man," said Kennedy, munching a grape and eating a piece of cake that his wife Lucy had prepared for the interview.