I got photographs of him writing, singing, of him just relaxing, playing the piano…. “I just sort of got myself in a discreet place and did what I could. I think it was a song about a guy, definitely an ‘up’ tune.” (In another interview however he mentions ‘Desolation Row’ – although not exactly “a song about a guy”). I wish I could remember what song they were working on that day. I did and was a little inhibited, but he was very friendly from the very beginning. “Immediately he wanted me to listen to what they just recorded. “He greeted me like an old friend,” says Schatzberg. That was August 1965, and Dylan was recording the songs for Highway 61 Revisited in the Columbia studio on Seventh Avenue. “I was assured that I could photograph him freely,” he adds. “The next day I get a call from my old friend Sara, who was living with Dylan at that point, and she says, “Bobby hears you want to photograph him.” She gave me the address of the studio where he was recording, and off I went.” They had been with Dylan the day before, and out of the blue I said, “Hey, next time you see him, tell him I’d like to photograph him.” “I don’t remember the occasion,” the photographer said, “but not long after that, Al Aronowitz and a disc jockey named Scott Ross were in my studio. However, it took some time before he actually met Dylan. Everywhere I’d see her, whether in Paris or London or New York, Nico would mention Dylan, “You gotta see Dylan…you gotta hear Dylan.” Finally I did and of course once I heard him, I loved him.” “The other person that kept telling me about Dylan was Nico, who went on to sing with the Velvet Underground, of course. I didn’t know Dylan, or his music at that time. I remember being at her apartment overlooking the village and she would point out where Dylan was playing. “I knew Sara first, when she was Sara Lowndes.
“People kept telling me I should meet him,” the photographer, recounted aged 91 in 2018. Thanks to the recommendation of some of these models, he got interested in Bob Dylan and made the photo for one of rock’s first double albums. His speciality was portraying beautiful, well-dressed women for glamor magazines such as Vogue, Life, Town and Country and Esquire. In the mid Sixties Jerry (his mom called him Jerold) Schatzberg was a freelance photographer in New York. I am also glad to say that Patrick has been added to our Untold Authors page.
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An index of the whole series can be found under the Album Artwork index which is listed at the top of the screen. This is episode 32 of the series looking at the artwork on Bob Dylan albums, with as many illustrations of pictures used and unused on the album.
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