Thu, 01 Dec 2005
Bob Dylan
Douglas Gilbert and Dave Marsh, Forever Young:
Photographs of Bob Dylan, Da Capo
The photographs in this book were from a photoshoot for
Look Magazine done in 1964. The pictures never made it into
the magazine because the editors thought Dylan too scruffy
for their not very Bohemian readership. He doesn't look
at all scruffy but he does look different, which he was
and is.
Here we have Dylan as a young twenty-something, not long
out of Hibbing, and with a little fame to his name. This
was before he went electric and just as he was getting together
with Joan Baez. The black and white photos show us Greenwich
Village and Woodstock in the background of Bob and various
friends and acqaintances.
The very interesting text is by Dave Marsh and he sets the
background of what is going on at the time and what is
coming up, along with the attitudes of what was to become
known as the counterculture, and which was a continuum from
the Beats. Indeed, Alan Ginsberg is one of those in the
pictures. He seems to have had a large talent for popping up at
media moments.
It's all a nice slice of history and there is a little extra
folder of photos for framing included. Nice touch.
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