Photographer turned green innovator Reginald Garcia was looking for a way to fund testing of the prototype of his electric motor. The answer? Selling the original photographs he took of a young Michael Jackson back in March 1978 (the pre-surgeries era).
Garcia and his business partner David Mahronic hope to use the money raised from the 130 unpublished Jackson photos — taken during breaks at a Hollywood studio while Jackson 5 were shooting a video — to cover the costs of testing their clean energy invention.
This article appears in May 12-18, 2011.