Bob Dylan With Children in Liverpool, 1966 28" X 38"Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print Signed By Photographer Barry Feinstei...

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Bob Dylan With Children in Liverpool, 1966 28" X 38"Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print Signed By Photographer Barry Feinstein. This is a beautiful 28" x 38 ¾" gelatin print of a seated Bob Dylan in 1966 in Liverpool surrounded by nine children. Photographed by Barry Feinstein (a prolific photographer, who shot cover photos for hundreds of albums, and lived 1931-2011), the verso has Feinstein's stamp and signature in pencil.

As for the image itself, it dates back to May 1966. Then, a much-younger Dylan was in Liverpool, during a stop on his world tour, and performing at the Odeon Theatre. On Saturday May 14, with some time to kill before the performance, he was exploring the streets with Feinstein, who was the official photographer on the European leg of the tour. Dylan, lean and resplendent in a corduroy jacket and diamond-patterned shirt, looked every inch the pied piper. So when Bob and Barry came across a bunch of kids playing on the street, it made complete sense to get a picture. The resulting photograph of Dylan on the steps with the children is an enduring classic, and one of Barry's most important and best loved photographs. It was even the subject of a BBC documentary put together by Chris Hockenhull, who tracked down most of the kids in the photograph in 2006.

Barry passed away in 2011, and since then his estate has offered posthumous estate stamped limited edition photographs from his archives, but back in 2008, while Barry was still alive, a London gallery hosted an exhibition of his signed work at the gallery, coinciding with the publication of his Bob Dylan book Real Moments. Until that point Barry had not offered collectors the chance to own his work in sizes larger than 20" x 24", but for the 2008 exhibition, for the first time, he scaled up a number of pieces to a 30" x 40" paper size.

Unframed and numbered "1/50" on the verso, it was made from the original negative in Feinstein's darkroom, and is a beautiful analogue example of this classic image. Feinstein only made two examples on 30" x 40" paper of this classic image that Barry ever signed. (There is no "3/50," and the "2/50" and is in a private collection with no plans of it being sold in the near future.)

In Near Mint Minus condition with several spots of handling wear. COA from Heritage Auctions.

More Information: Born in Philadelphia in 1931, Berry Feinstein was an only child and dropped out after a year at the University of Miami. He discovered his photographic ability while taking pictures at at the Atlantic City racetrack, where he worked in 1955. He joined Life as a photographic assistant but soon relocated to Los Angeles.

Working as a production assistant at Columbia Pictures, he carried a camera and took unlikely photos of the studio parking lots and the Hollywood sign from the back – "the part of Hollywood that nobody thinks about or looks at," as he put it. Promoted to studio photographer, he took pictures of Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Charlton Heston and Jayne Mansfield, accompanied Marlon Brando to a civil rights rally in 1963 and photographed Steve McQueen on the set of Bullitt. Feinstein favored an instinctive approach and excelled at the unexpected. When Magnum sent him to cover Marilyn Monroe's death in 1962, he zoomed in on the bottle of pills by her bedside. In 1963, Feinstein married Mary Travers, the singer-songwriter and member of the folk music group Peter, Paul and Mary.

He was a photographer, cameraman, graphic designer, and art director who created many of the entertainment industry's most compelling and iconic images. His work has appeared in countless publications including Life, Look, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, GQ, Rolling Stone, Mojo and The New York Times. Most famous for his album cover artwork, Feinstein is responsible for nearly 500 cover shoots including All Things Must Pass by George Harrison, Pearl by Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton's first solo album, Ringo by Ringo Starr, The Times They Are a-Changin' by Bob Dylan, and Mr. Tambourine Man by the Byrds.

Feinstein was the exclusive photographer on Dylan's legendary 1966 European tour and again for Dylan and the Band's 1974 US tour. As a cameraman, he documented the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, produced and directed the cult classic "You Are What You Eat" and was a cameraman and official photographer for George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Barry was an innovator in all that he did whether it was photography, art direction, graphic design, or film. Nowhere is this more apparent than with his now legendary hand-held cinema-photography for the film Easy Rider in 1969. In would be another 30 years before similar camera work was seen again in a major motion picture.

During his lengthy and varied career, Feinstein received over thirty US and international art director and photo-journalism awards, including being nominated for an Emmy for his Ike & Tina album cover. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the National Portrait Gallery, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Columbus Museum, Georgia; National Portrait Gallery, Scotland; Gibbes Museum of Art in South Carolina and the Hunter Museum in Tennessee.

He passed away in 2011 after a lengthy illness in Woodstock, New York, where he had lived for many years with his wife, the artist Judith Jamison.


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