Before she was Lady Gaga, Stefani Germannotta was just a 19-year-old waitress in the West Village. And that’s where she met photographer Malgorzata Saniewska, who shot Gaga’s first real photo shoot as a performer. “The house was empty, it was just the two of us”, Saniewska said. “I knew she was a singer, so our focus was her and her very first piano. We just hung out in her parents’ living room, and the piano was right by the window”.