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John Cohen was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, one of the folk revival´s most authentic and respected musical groups. In the 1960s he made a series of photographs of the last years of Woody Guthrie´s life, and early portraits of Bob Dylan on his arrival in New York, depicting two titans of American music at opposite ends of their careers. In the process, Cohen portrayed one of the great moments of American folk music history.

The book contains other images from the 1960s including the music scenes at Washington Square and on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, images of Jerry Garcia and the musicians in San Francisco´s "Family Dog," as well as the psychedelic "Sky River Rock" festival.

In 1970, Dylan requested Cohen make another set of color photographs of him with a "camera that could take photographs from a block away." By then, he had become world-famous. Bob was seen walking unrecognized on the streets of the city and at a farm in upstate NY. The photographs were used in Dylan´s album "Self Portrait."

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Cohen, John
John Cohen, born in 1932 in New York, is a photographer, filmmaker and musician. A MFA graduate from Yale University School of Fine Arts, Cohen was active in the artistic circles of late 1950s and early 1960s New York, and worked with Robert Frank on his film "Pull My Daisy" (1959). Steidl has published Cohen´s Past Present Peru (2010) and The High & Lonesome Sound. The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb (2012).

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