Literature

“I believe that the key to the future is in the remnants of the past. That you have to master the idioms of your own time before you can have any identity in the present tense. Your past begins the day you were born and to disregard it is cheating yourself of who you really are”~ Bob Dylan “This is a picture from a more innocent time at the beginning of Bob Dylan’s career. This is what he might have looked like when he first arrived in New York, an image of a young man, age twenty. The making of these photographs was straight forward. We weren’t trying to create a persona. I was more interested in documenting what was before the camera and what I was seeing wasn’t so clear. The session was a free flowing pursuit of picture making. We didn’t know what he was going to look like."~ John Cohen John Cohen was a very modest, humble, talented Renaissance man. He excelled at many things. A writer, a film maker, a musician, founder of the New Lost City Ramblers and an extremely talented photographer. Bob respected and knew of his musical ability. A fellow artist he just relaxed before Cohen's camera and revealed who he was before enormous fame enveloped him and his “image” appeared. A time of innocence indeed.