Bob Dylan and Sally Grossman, cover of "Bringing it all Back Home." Photograph by Daniel Kramer.
Daniel Kramer: “Bob Dylan and W. Eugene Smith”
Moderated by Sam Stephenson, Jazz Loft Project Director
Wednesday, October 13, Noon at CDS
Daniel Kramer, a New York–based photographer and film director, has long been recognized for his portraits and picture stories in national and international magazines and books. Kramer’s photographs have been exhibited or collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the International Center of Photography, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Experience Music Project, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and numerous other national and international galleries.
Kramer’s 1967 book, Bob Dylan, the first major work about the performer-songwriter, was recently reprinted as Bob Dylan: A Portrait of the Artist’s Early Years (2001). His Dylan photographs were also used on the album covers for Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Biograph (1985) and Bringing It All Back Home (1965). Many of Kramer’s photographs of Dylan can also be seen in Martin Scorsese’s documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.
W. Eugene Smith consulted with Kramer about his photographs of Dylan and recorded their conversations in Smith’s loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, in New York City, the focus of the extensive Jazz Loft Project based at the Center for Documentary Studies.
The brown bag presentation will focus on Kramer’s work as an early Bob Dylan documentary photographer and on Kramer’s friendship and stories regarding Dylan and W. Eugene Smith. Kramer will show his photographs, and the presentation will feature recordings from the loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in 1965, with conversation about Dylan by Kramer and Smith.
More information about this event at the Jazz Loft Project blog
Note: Bob Dylan’s current tour brings him to North Carolina during the week of this event. He will appear in Charlotte on October 14 and in Winston-Salem on October 16. See details about the tour.
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[...] This is a reminder for locals that Daniel Kramer will be at CDS for a noon brown bag event this Wednesday October 13 to show and discuss his photographs of Bob Dylan from the mid-1960s. We’ll also play – for the first time ever in public – clips of Smith’s tapes in which Kramer is recorded the loft talking with Smith about Dylan and photography (Smith photographed Dylan during this period, too, of course). More information can be found on the CDS site. [...]
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