Joel Bernstein
Joel Bernstein is an acclaimed photographer whose work, spanning more than three decades, chronicles the inner lives and public moments of some of the most important musicians of our time.
They include Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Prince, Jackson Browne and Tom Petty. In 2018 Bernstein received the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Photography Hall of Fame & Museum for his contribution to photography.
Bernstein’s work is well known within the world of music, and is included in the permanent collection of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. He has been published in a wide spectrum of books on music, musicians, and the music business, as well as in Time, The New York Times and Rolling Stone. He was profiled in MOJO, the esteemed British music publication, which extensively featured his photos of Neil Young.
In 2018 The International Photography Hall of Fame in St. Louis, MO chose Joel to be the recipient of the first Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. Their Hall of Fame includes nearly every nineteenth and twentieth century master of photography, as well as the major innovators in the design and manufacture of cameras, lenses, and films.
He currently lives in Oakland, California.
In 2015, Bruce Springsteen chose 75 of Joel’s images to be included in the book, package and video documentary featured in the Columbia Records/Sony Music box set The River Collection–The Ties That Bind, the highly acclaimed expanded edition of his 1981 2-LP album The River, released in December 2015.
