Forever Young : Photographs of Bob Dylan

by Gilbert, Douglas R.

• ISBN13: 9780306815164
• ISBN10: 0306815168
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-23
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

In August 1964, twenty-one-year-old photographer Douglas R. Gilbert, on assignment forLookmagazine, photographed an up-and-coming folk singer named Bob Dylan. Just twenty-three years old, Dylan had already composed a striking body of work, including "Blowin' in the Wind," yet he himself was still relatively unknown. All that was about to change. For more than a week, Gilbert photographed a surprisingly open Bob Dylan, smiling and relaxed among friends like musician John Sebastian and poet Allen Ginsberg. To Gilbert's dismay,Lookdeemed Dylan's appearance "too scruffy" for a family magazine, and the images remained unpublished and unseen, until now. Featuring veteran music journalist Dave Marsh's insightful text,Forever Youngunforgettably captures a pivotal time in Bob Dylan's extraordinary career--the time when he began transforming not just folk but all of popular music.

Author Biography

Douglas R. Gilbert's work has appeared in numerous national and international publications and has been exhibited in museums and galleries since the 1970s, including the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He lives with his wife in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Dave Marsh, co-founder of Creem and writer and editor at Rolling Stone since 1975, has published record reviews in over 200 newspapers, and written for the New York Times, Playboy, the Village Voice, The Nation, and TV Guide. He lives in Connecticut.