Four photo portraits of Michael Jackson, taken in Paris in 1999 as part of a planned image makeover for the legend, went on show for the first time Friday ahead of their sale at auction later this year.

Each photo built around a theme — the blue eye, the silver hand, the red curtain and the golden cape — was taken by a French photographer, Arno Bani, on a request from Jackson who had seen his work in a British newspaper.