Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg is probably best known for his portrait of Bob Dylan that appeared on the cover of Blonde on Blonde. Alongside his Dylan archive, we feature his photographs of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and more, and we also showcase photographs from his outstanding fashion archives.
Jerry Schatzberg was born in the Bronx, New York in 1927. After launching his career working under successful fashion photographer William Helburn, at age 28, Schatzberg started his own photography studio at 333 Park Avenue South in New York. His work has since been published in VOGUE, McCall’s, Esquire, Glamour, and LIFE magazines and he has photographed many of the leading artistic personalities of the 1960’s including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and Faye Dunaway. His portrait of Bob Dylan, taken on a freezing cold day in the grimy meatpacking district of downtown New York, was chosen for the cover of Dylan’s 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.
Reflecting on his approach Jerry said “I love to find something that’s a little unusual, and you usually do when you look for the truth. If you’re looking to make something up, well, then it looks like it’s made up, you know … People themselves bring their own character to the photograph … I like that and I just take advantage of that and it just seemed to work.”
Jerry later started a career in filmmaking. In 1970, he directed his first feature film Puzzle of a Downfall Child which starred his former girlfriend Faye Dunaway. He continued to direct more than a dozen feature films, including The Panic in Needle Park in 1971 with Al Pacino, Scarecrow in 1973 with Gene Hackman and Pacino, and No Small Affair in 1984 with Demi Moore.
Jerry’s photographs have been exhibited at the Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival in France, the Victor & Albert Museum in London, Domaine de Chamarande and the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Books of his photographs include Thin Wild Mercury: Touching Dylan’s Edge (2006), Paris 1962: Yves Saint Laurent and Dior (2008),Women then: Photographs 1954-1969 (2010), and Dylan by Schatzberg (2018).
The limited editions
The images shown below are available to purchase as signed limited editions in a choice of physical sizes.
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