Forever Young: Photographs of Bob Dylan

About this book

In August 1964 twenty-one-year-old photographer Douglas R. Gilbert on assignment for Look magazine photographed an up-and-coming folk singer named Bob Dylan. Just twenty-three years old Dylan had already composed a striking body of work including "Blowin in the Wind " yet he himself was still relatively unknown. All that was about to change. For more than a week Gilbert photographed a surprisingly open Bob Dylan smiling and relaxed among friends like musician John Sebastian and poet Allen Ginsberg. To Gilberts dismay Look deemed Dylans appearance "too scruffy" for a family magazine and the images remained unpublished and unseen until now. Featuring veteran music journalist Dave Marshs insightful text Forever Young unforgettably captures a pivotal time in Bob Dylans extraordinary career--the time when he began transforming not just folk but all of popular music.