Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan photo shoot - Digital fine art photo print

Open-edition digital fine art photo print. 9.5”w x 9.5”h image size (11”w x 14”h overall print size), printed to meet museum and gallery quality standards using premium, fiber-based archival paper. Embossed in the margin by the publisher, Icon Collectibles (a Sony Music company). Includes a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Glenn Korman, V.P. of the Sony Archives.

Shipped unmatted/unframed

In this rare outtake from the photo sessions for the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, photographer Don Hunstein uses the banisters on the stoop of Dylan's then-apartment on Greenwich Village's West 4th Street to visually frame the singer and his girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, during a winter's twilight stroll in February, 1963.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Dylan's second studio LP - was released in May, 1963 on Columbia Records. Leading off with "Blowin' in the Wind", the record was his first to focus on his own songwriting abilities and included other songs that would become Dylan standards, including "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". The record hit #22 on the album charts (eventually going platinum) and served to introduce Dylan's prodigious talents to music fans world-wide.

In 2002, the record was one of 50 chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry, and in 2003, the album was ranked at #97 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

As the staff photographer for Columbia Records, Don Hunstein was there to witness - and photograph - a number of iconic moments in the early history of rock music . His pictures have appeared on over 200 LP/CD covers and have included portraits of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis and many others in the rock/pop, jazz and classical music arenas.

According to Hunstein - "It was winter and that was the first time I had shot him. One of the people in the publicity department at Columbia said, 'Look, there's this kid called Bob Dylan - he's going to be hot. We've got to start building a photo file right now and he's downtown he's willing to have you come', so I went down to the Village. I met Bob at his apartment, which was a third floor walk-up on West 4th Street. The apartment was rather bleak, but I got a useful set of pictures out of it, including some with his girlfriend Suze. Dylan himself was by then already quite image conscious and self-assured, and he knew how to play to the camera. Then we decided to try the street, but the light was fading so quickly that I was able to shoot only one color roll and a few black + whites. I asked him to walk away about 50 feet from me, turn around and walk to me. Because it was cold we didn’t take terribly much time but we were lucky to get what got we got."