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Neil Young passing an old woman at 3rd & Sullivan, New York City, June 1970. "After The Gold Rush" album cover (solarized). Joel Bernstein explains how the old woman came to be in the frame: "The photo was not "a mistake." I saw the small, old woman coming towards us down the sidewalk, was intrigued, and wanted to catch her passing Neil. The mistake, to me, was that I had in my haste focused the lens just past the two figures, closer to the fence than to Neil's face. That was the original reason why I made a small-sized print and solarized it; to help with the apparent sharpness. But the solarization in this case added a somewhat spooky dimension to the image, which Neil took to immediately." NOTE:Because of the nature of the solarization process, each print is unique, and small variations from print to print will occur.
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Look closely at the photograph, and you'll see its not just Neil Young in the back of the car. Alongside him, almost translucent, is the hazy image of a beautiful young woman. Thats Gigi, who was on the tour taking care of Neil's son Zeke. The photograph was taken in Cleveland, in August 1974. Joel Bernstein remembers it clearly: "She's sitting in the back seat of an old Cadillac parked in the middle of the old, now gone, Cleveland Stadium before a concert. She looks translucent because I'm standing outside the car, very close to the window with a wide angle lens, and reflections from the window I'm shooting through has both caused her to be transparent and other parts of the photo to be darker or lighter. I like the intensity with which he's looking at the page in the typewriter. He is actually writing the song "White Line"; I know because I located that typewritten manuscript among the others Neil had typed during the tour."
