Bob Dylan: The Photos
Eighty pictures of Bob Dylan on the occasion of his 80th birthday
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America likes to think of itself as a land or reinvention, Esquire's Charles P. Pierce writes. Bob Dylan, he adds, has been calling America's bluff on that ever since he showed up in Greenwich Village. On May 24, 2021, Dylan turns 80 years old. He's been making music for nearly 60 of those years, and shifting shapes throughout the decades, both in the music he plays and in the ways he presents himself, as these 80 photos reveal.
Bob Dylan plays acoustic guitar in September 1962 in New York City.
Bob Dylan with shaving cream on his face, backstage at an unknown venue, 1964.
Joan Baez and Bob Dylan performing live onstage at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964.
Bob Dylan travelling in a car through Massachusetts in April 1964.
Bob Dylan on the top of a car in Massachusetts, April 1964.
Bob Dylan and Mimi Farina at the Viking Hotel Newport, Rhode Island, July 1964.
Bob Dylan at the Viking Hotel Newport.
Bob Dylan in Bearsville, New York, Summer 1964.
Bob Dylan during a press interview in the UK in 1965.
Bob Dylan backstage at De Montfort Hall on his visit to Leiciester, UK in 1965.
Bob Dylan plays a Fender Jazz bass with the harmonica around his neck while recording his album Bringing It All Back Home on January 13, 1965 in Columbia's Studio A in New York City.
Bob Dylan with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones in 1965 in New York City.
Bob Dylan at a press conference in London, 1965.
Bob Dylan, backstage at his famous Free Trade Hall Concert, drinking a cup of tea in Manchester, UK in 1965.
Bob Dylan in London in 1965.
D.A. Pennebaker films Bob Dylan for the documentary film Don't Look Back about Dylan's 1965 tour of England.
Bob Dylan in London in 1965.
Bob Dylan at a press conference at The Savoy, London, May 1966.
Bob Dylan at a press conference in London, 1966.
Bob Dylan at the Mayfair Hotel in London, 1966.
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