The latest issue of American Photo magazine comes with four different covers, each with a different celebrity.

All four covers  Elton John, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jodie Foster and Djimon Hounsou  were taken by photographer Greg Gorman, who grew up in Prairie Village and attended Kansas University from 1967 to 1969.

“I love KU and Lawrence,” Gorman said. “Those were some of the best times of my life.”

The magazine includes an article on Gorman’s coming to grips with the “digital darkroom.”

Gorman, 53, is one of the nation’s top celebrity photographers. He’s worked with Robert DeNiro, John Travolta, Al Pacino, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.

He’s shot album covers for David Bowie, Lionel Richie, Bette Midler, Billy Idol and Joe Cocker.

He’s created media packages for the movies “Tootsie,” “The Big Chill,” “Speed,” and “First Wives Club.” His latest projects include “Pearl Harbor,” “Sum of All Fears” and “Changing Lanes.”

He’s published five coffee-table books of art photography, often featuring male and female nudes. A sixth book is in the works.

While in Lawrence, Gorman spent two semesters in the Sigma Nu fraternity, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, before he and friend moved to a house in the 1500 block of New Hampshire Street.

Gorman moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 1969, later earning a master’s degree in cinematography at the University of Southern California. He now lives in Hollywood.

While at KU, Gorman took a photojournalism course that sent him to cover an anti-ROTC demonstration at Memorial Stadium.

A photograph of Gorman at the protest, camera in hand, ran in the Journal-World.

In the American Photo article, Gorman says he “first got hooked on photography” when he took a borrowed camera to a Jimi Hendrix concert in Kansas City, Mo.

“I tell that story all the time,” Gorman said.

Several of Gorman’s photos of touring musicians appeared in Vortex and Reconstruction, Lawrence’s underground newspapers at the time.