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.
"These are pictures from a more innocent time at the beginning of Bob Dylan's career...what he looked like to me when he first arrived in New York....The making of these photographs was quite naive. 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."
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