- Hardcover: 71 pages
- Publisher: powerHouse Books; 1 edition (Sep 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1576871991
- ISBN-13: 978-1576871997
- Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 1.5 x 24.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 640 g
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- #75 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > People, A-Z > ( D ) > Dylan, Bob
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In 1962, a young John Cohen and the young songwriter Bob Dylan went to Cohen's East Village loft and rooftop for a few hours to make some photos in "a moment of invention…without planning, and with the freedom that comes from uncertainty," recalls Cohen. The never-before-published, black-and-white photographs in Young Bob: John Cohen's Early Photographs of Bob Dylan reveal the soon-to-be-legendary musician on the cusp of fame, just before the release of his revolutionary self-titled first album. "These are pictures from a more innocent time at the beginning of Bob Dylan's career," Cohen recalled. "his is what he might have looked like when he first arrived in New York…. the making of these photographs was quite naïve. We weren't into creating a persona for Bob. I was more interested in documenting what was before the camera, and what I was seeing wasn't so clear.
The session was just a free-flowing pursuit of picture making and taking poses. We didn't know what he was going to look like." To complement the images, Cohen has painstakingly transcribed and edited forgotten radio interviews that aired between 1961 and 1963. The interviews conjure up voices from the past, where you can hear a youthful Dylan joking and quipping with WBAI's Cynthia Gooding, WNYC's Oscar Brand, and WFMT's Studs Terkel. With a flourish of color, Cohen's recently rediscovered Ektachromes shot in 1970 for the album "Self Portrait" appear at the end of Young Bob.
These finely constructed "self portraits," art directed by Dylan himself, offer a contrast to the uninhibited loft and rooftop photos and serve as a reminder that just a few years later the famed persona of Dylan had truly been formed and that the young Bob we caught a glimpse of on Cohen's rooftop was now and forever gone.
The session was just a free-flowing pursuit of picture making and taking poses. We didn't know what he was going to look like." To complement the images, Cohen has painstakingly transcribed and edited forgotten radio interviews that aired between 1961 and 1963. The interviews conjure up voices from the past, where you can hear a youthful Dylan joking and quipping with WBAI's Cynthia Gooding, WNYC's Oscar Brand, and WFMT's Studs Terkel. With a flourish of color, Cohen's recently rediscovered Ektachromes shot in 1970 for the album "Self Portrait" appear at the end of Young Bob.
These finely constructed "self portraits," art directed by Dylan himself, offer a contrast to the uninhibited loft and rooftop photos and serve as a reminder that just a few years later the famed persona of Dylan had truly been formed and that the young Bob we caught a glimpse of on Cohen's rooftop was now and forever gone.
About the Author
John Cohen, born in 1932 in New York City, studied photography and painting at Yale under Josef Albers and Herbert Matter. His photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, as well as The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Cohen studied photography and painting under Joseph Albers and Herbert Matter at Yale, and his images have been published in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Aperture. Cohen's award-wining films have been screened worldwide and his band, The New Lost City Ramblers, has received several Grammy nominations. A former professor of Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase, New York, from 1972-1979, and the author of There is No Eye (powerHouse Books 2001 and 2003), Cohen lives in Putnam Valley, New York.
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Superb photos & splendid edition, Feb 27 2006
By Franc - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Young Bob: John Cohen's Early Photographs of Bob Dylan (Hardcover)
I bought this book together with Douglas R. Gilbert's 'Forever Young' and they are both interesting portraits of Bob Dylan as a young artist. Yet taken as a book, John Cohen's is in a different league altogether. The paper on which this book is printed is wonderful (compared with the cheap seeming one used for 'Forever Young') and the printing of both B&W and colour images is first-rate.As accompanying text there are three transcribed radios interviews with Bob Dylan which are contemporaneous to the photographs. This is also a winning point of this book; having both the photographs and the young Dylan speak for themselves.
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fast and honest, April 23 2009
By Holly Hanmer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Young Bob: John Cohen's Early Photographs of Bob Dylan (Hardcover)
only minor damages to the spine, but something to be expected when buying a used book. Seller was fast and honest
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QUALITY PICTURES, May 7 2008
By Nadia "Nadia" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Young Bob: John Cohen's Early Photographs of Bob Dylan (Hardcover)
This is a quality book of great pictures--not "Forever Young" that I wouldn't buy even if the price was right since I got it from the library first as one customer review recommended. This book is first class in clarity, paper quality, and quality of pictures. You also get three transcribed radio interviews which coincide with the times of the photographs.The first photographs (black and white) were done at Cohen's place when Bob was just starting out in New York City, and he was 20 years old. You will see a few real stunners, some casual ones, funny offbeat ones, and then some color 1970 snapshots of him (probably on his property and just walking across the street).
The first photograph inside is the one offered in the booklet that goes with Bootleg #7, which is a real stunner only here you get a full photo and it's clearer and bigger. Then on page 6 is the one I like even more than the first one (maybe). I, being female, can tell you that this makes Bob look like a model. Guys may be shy of pointing out his good looks, but I can do that. So gals and guys who see Bob as a hero or idol should like this book. There is a casual photo of Bob strolling alongside his baby in a buggy, and I really like this one too because it reveals his high forehead--FINALLY!!!!!!!!
(Some movie-type small photos also.)
You will not be disappointed.
Get this book instead of wasting your money on "Forever Young."
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