Bob Dylan: NYC 1961-1964

As the title says ALL the photos are from the period 1961-1964. With only a few generic pics of Bob performing, the big strength of this book is that nearly all the pics are of private moments in Hotel rooms or backstage. There are 28 double page photos (approx.) Imo only 3 of those photos are 'lessened by the 2 page format (1 of them badly) The quality of printing is very good & the photos well defined. I like the size of the book, keeping it at a good price in hardback form. Much better to have this size of book in hardback (20cms x 25cms approx.) than paying 2 or 3 times as much to have it in a bigger format in Paperback

Even to some casual fans nearly all of these images of a young, fresh-faced, Bob Dylan are going to appear familiar yet this book still offers an intriguing look at the time just after the guitar playing singer arrived in New York and the subsequent three year period just before he went electric. From intimate photos alone with his guitar in his tiny Greenwich Village apartment as well as with Suze Rotolo to several candid photos with James Baldwin at the Tom Paine Award ceremony just a few weeks after Kennedy's assassination.It is somewhat annoying that several really great photographs are spread across two pages thus allowing the inner binding of the book to run vertically down the middle of Dylan's face. While it is still possible to view the photos in question, it did require - in some instances - that I press down firmly on both pages of the book in order to view the particular photo "satisfactorily". Again, this is not the case with the majority of the photos and I'm not sure whether the publishers/editors intended to give the reader/viewer the larger spreads in order to provide more visual appeal but in those few scenarios it provided just the opposite for me(I'd have preferred smaller one page photos in these instances; perhaps even with the photo placed on one page and rotated 90 degrees). Aside from this I still greatly enjoyed the photos and the text.Approximately the first 42 pages contain photos accompanied by a forward from Donovan, a preface by the photographer Ted Russell and an introduction by Chris Murray. Thereafter, the pages are photos with no text or captions. Both the preface and the intro offer helpful insight into the circumstances leading to the photo sessions and the times which they capture.

Lovely book if you have an interest in Dylan like I do. To see early photos of the man before fame and asinine people continuously hassled him is a treat. It is only a collection of photos but the historic footnote they make in Dylan's life is priceless

A little disappointed. Many monochrome pictures of the lad hanging out in his apartment. I had hoped for better, but perhaps hoped for too much.

Great photos of iconic music legend Dylan ... However, there was to some degree a repetitiveness in the picture selections ... That said, I am glad to have it as part of my Dylan library ...