Daniel Kramer. Bob Dylan. A Year and a Day

by Daniel Kramer (Photographer), Robert Santelli

Daniel Kramer’s classic Bob Dylan portfolio captures the artist’s transformative “big bang” year of 1964–65. Over the course of a year and a day, Kramer’s extraordinary access to Bob Dylan on tour, in concert, and backstage, allowed for one of the most mesmerizing photographic portfolios of any recording artist and a stunning document of Dylan breaking through to superstardom.Highlights include the Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall concert with Joan Baez; the Bringing It All Back Home recording sessions; and the now-famous concert at Forest Hills, when Dylan’s controversial transition to electric guitar exemplified his constant, cryptic state of becoming. As much a document of a seminal period of rock ’n’ roll history as of Dylan himself, the pictures also feature such compelling friends and collaborators as Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Allen Ginsberg, and Albert Grossman.Bob A Year and a Day presents a curated selection of nearly 200 images, including outtakes from the Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited album cover shoots. Previously published by TASCHEN as a signed Collector’s Edition, this standard edition is the more affordable boon to any serious photography or Dylan fan. With stories throughout the book by Kramer, this is at once an intimate and evocative testament to a seminal photographer, to a particular point in time, and to an exceptional, mysterious artist at the moment his career went global.First published as a TASCHEN Collector’s Edition, now available as an affordable, compact edition

Genres: Photography, Music

304 pages, Hardcover

Published August 10, 2018

Reviews

[Glenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Huge (13”x10”, 300 pages) book of photos of what is arguably Dylan’s most productive and influential year - 1964–5. Daniel Kramer was selected to be Bob’s official photographer and spent a year and a day with him. The result is a fine portfolio of portraits, candids, concert shots and album covers. The brief text throughout by Kramer describes the circumstances of the photos as well as the relationship that developed with his originally reluctant subject. A steal at a half price sale from Taschen.

[Evan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an absolutely beautiful coffee table book. I had it on my Amazon wish list for over year, but couldn't justify its $100 price tag. I found it on sale and decided to treat myself. I'm glad I did. The photographs are phenomenal. It's very well-designed and the stories and articles are engaging as well. It's definitely a keepsake and something that I will value for a long time.

[Nick Van · Rating 5 out of 5]

A superb account of a fleeting moment, both in its photos, and in Kramer’s accounts of them. A superb book, and a necessary one for any Dylan fan.

[MJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect.

[Luis de Diego · Rating 5 out of 5]

La presentación es buenísima. Si vas leyendo el texto mientras ves las fotos, la obra te atrapa por completo. Aprendes, compruebas y entiendes cosas de la personalidad de Dylan en muchas de las fotos. Si eres fan de Dylan es obligatoria su lectura. Si no... pues va a ser que no.