Bob Dylan: The extraordinary pictures documenting a seminal period of rock’n’roll history

Daniel Kramer documented Bob Dylan in 1964-5, the year he went electric and changed the world. His intimate access allowed a portrait of an artist who was so much older then...

(Photographs Daniel Kramer/courtesy of Taschen)

Daniel Kramer’s classic Bob Dylan portfolio captures the artist’s transformative big bang year of 1964–65, when his divisive transition to electric guitar exemplified his constant, cryptic state of becoming and propelled him to superstar status. It was also the year Dylan self-deprecatingly avowed he was “just a song and dance man”. The images take us behind the scenes of a seminal period of music history.

You can purchase ‘Daniel Kramer. Bob Dylan: A Year and a Day​​’, published by Taschen, here