Young Bob: John Cohen's Early Photographs of Bob Dylan

by Oscar Brand, Cynthia Gooding, Studs Terkel

In 1962, a young John Cohen and the young songwriter Bob Dylan went to Cohen's East Village loft and rooftop for a few hours to take some photos. Now these never-before-published, b/w photographs reveal the soon-to-be legendary musician on the cusp of fame, just before the release of his revolutionary self-titled first album. To complement the images, Cohen has painstakingly transcribed and edited forgotten radio interviews that aired between 1961...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576871991
• ISBN13: 9781576871997
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

fast and honest

only minor damages to the spine, but something to be expected when buying a used book. Seller was fast and honest

QUALITY PICTURES

This is a quality book of great pictures--not "Forever Young" that I wouldn't buy even if the price was right since I got it from the library first as one customer review recommended. This book is first class in clarity, paper quality, and quality of pictures. You also get three transcribed radio interviews which coincide with the times of the photographs. The first photographs (black and white) were done at Cohen's place when Bob was just starting out in New York City, and he was 20 years old. You will see a few real stunners, some casual ones, funny offbeat ones, and then some color 1970 snapshots of him (probably on his property and just walking across the street). The first photograph inside is the one offered in the booklet that goes with Bootleg #7, which is a real stunner only here you get a full photo and it's clearer and bigger. Then on page 6 is the one I like even more than the first one (maybe). I, being female, can tell you that this makes Bob look like a model. Guys may be shy of pointing out his good looks, but I can do that. So gals and guys who see Bob as a hero or idol should like this book. There is a casual photo of Bob strolling alongside his baby in a buggy, and I really like this one too because it reveals his high forehead--FINALLY!!!!!!!! (Some movie-type small photos also.) You will not be disappointed. Get this book instead of wasting your money on "Forever Young."

Superb photos & splendid edition

I bought this book together with Douglas R. Gilbert's 'Forever Young' and they are both interesting portraits of Bob Dylan as a young artist. Yet taken as a book, John Cohen's is in a different league altogether. The paper on which this book is printed is wonderful (compared with the cheap seeming one used for 'Forever Young') and the printing of both B & W and colour images is first-rate. As accompanying text there are three transcribed radios interviews with Bob Dylan which are contemporaneous to the photographs. This is also a winning point of this book; having both the photographs and the young Dylan speak for themselves.