Barry Feinstein | Photographer, 80
Barry Feinstein, 80, a photographer who chronicled the lives of seminal rock 'n' roll stars of the 1960s, and who was perhaps best known for the stark portrait of Bob Dylan on the cover of the 1964 album The Times They Are A-Changin' , died Oct. 20 near his home in Woodstock, N.Y.
Barry Feinstein, 80, a photographer who chronicled the lives of seminal rock 'n' roll stars of the 1960s, and who was perhaps best known for the stark portrait of Bob Dylan on the cover of the 1964 album
The Times They Are A-Changin'
, died Oct. 20 near his home in Woodstock, N.Y.
Besides his work with Dylan, Mr. Feinstein established his reputation as one of rock's semiofficial official chroniclers with two 1970 photographs: one of Janis Joplin, taken the day before she died, which appeared on the cover of her final album, Pearl, and one of George Harrison, sitting in the middle of a pile of toppled, gnomic lawn statuary, which became the cover of All Things Must Pass, his first album after the breakup of the Beatles.
Barry Feinstein was born in Philadelphia on Feb. 4, 1931, the only child of David and Rose Feinstein.
Though he never studied photography, Mr. Feinstein began as a photographer for Columbia Pictures in the 1950s, shooting pictures of movie stars such as Judy Garland and Steve McQueen. But he found his true calling after hours, and outside the office, in taking pictures of stars as they moved through the real world. - N.Y. Times News Service