Barry Feinstein
Barry Feinstein ( born February 4, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † October 20, 2011 in Woodstock, New York ) was an American photographer.
Life
Barry Feinstein, born in 1931 in Philadelphia, began in his youth with the photography. In 1955 he was engaged as an assistant at Life magazine. As a result, he became a sought-after photographers in Hollywood; there he worked with Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, Jayne Mansfield and Steve McQueen. His works, as well as pictures of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, appeared in magazines such as Time, Esquire and Newsweek.
In the 1960s, Feinstein was known as a photographer of the music scene. He accompanied Bob Dylan in 1966 during its tour of England and shot the cover photos of numerous albums, including the Dylan album, The Times They Are a- Changin ', as well as Janis Joplin, George Harrison and the Rolling Stones. In 1974 he went again with Bob Dylan on tour, this time with The Band of the United States.
An accident in 1993 affected Feinstein's ability to operate cameras. In 2008, he published two books: one contained 23 of his early Hollywood works together with Bob Dylan poems written in 1964; the second showed photos of Dylan's tours. Feinstein's photographs of the Tour from 1966 were issued in 2009 at the National Portrait Gallery in London. He died on 20 October 2011 at the age of 80 years in Woodstock, New York.
Publications
- Early Dylan. Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1999, ISBN 9,780,821,225,349th
- Real Moments: Bob Dylan: The Photographs of Barry Feinstein 1966 to 1974. Omnibus Press, London 2008, ISBN 978-1847721051.