Bob Dylan.
On a freezing February afternoon in 1963,
the photographer Don Hunstein asked Bob Dylan and his girlfriend, Suze Rotolo,
to walk along a slush-covered Jones Street in
Greenwich Village, near Mr. Dylan’s small apartment. Mr. Dylan, in a thin
jacket, and Ms. Rotolo, bundled in a coat over bulky sweaters, strolled arm in
arm past cars and trucks and into music history.
One of the pictures that Don Hunstein took that day became the cover of Mr. Dylan’s second album, ‘The
freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’.” It is the most recognizable image in the archive of
musical giants that Mr. Hunstein shot as a staff
photographer for Columbia Records
from the late 1950s to 1986, when the label shut down its
in-house photo studio.
Mr. Hunstein had already
photographed Mr. Dylan and Ms. Rotolo inside the apartment, but was not yet
satisfied. “I said I wanted to get some outside stuff, and I looked out the
window and saw it was getting darker and darker,” he told Rockarchive, a
collective of rock music photographers, in 2007. Once downstairs, he told them
to walk up and down the street.
‘There wasn’t very much
thought to it’, he said in 1997 about his instructions to Mr. Dylan and Ms.
Rotolo.
With the sunlight fading,
he ended the session after shooting only one roll of color film and a few
black-and-white pictures. It was enough.
The times they are a-changin'.
Blonde on Blonde.
Nashville Skyline.
typing away...
with Suzy Rotolo.
with James Baldwyn at the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee's Bill of Rights dinner to present Dylan with the Tom Payne Award.
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