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when: Thursday 1 July 2010. 6pm-8pm.
cost: free.
where: Blender Gallery. 16 Elizabeth St, Paddington.
from Blender Gallery:
For the first time in Australia an exhibition of iconic, rare, intimate and unseen moments of Bob Dylan will be on display in Sydney.
Blender Gallery, in association with Morrison Hotel Gallery in the USA, and Rockarchive.com in the UK, is delighted to present “DYLAN – Bringing It All Back Home” an incredible collection of highly collectable images of the legendary musician Bob Dylan.
For almost 50 years, Bob Dylan has remained, one of the most influential American musicians rock & roll has ever produced. “Inscrutable and unpredictable, Dylan has been both deified and denounced for his shifts of interest, while whole schools of musicians took up his ideas” – Rolling Stone
By personalizing folk songs, Dylan reinvented the singer-songwriter genre; by performing his allusive, poetic songs in his nasal, spontaneous vocal style with an electric band, he enlarged pop’s range and vocabulary while creating a widely imitated sound. By recording with Nashville veterans, he helped give rise to Seventies country-rock. In the 1980s and 1990s, although he often seemed to flounder, he still had the ability to challenge, influence, and surprise listeners — something he did more reliably in the late 1990s and 2000s, when he recorded some of the greatest music of his career.
“I’ve admired and enjoyed his many musical transformations.
For me, there is no other musical artist who weaves his influences so densely to create something so personal and unique.” – Martin Scorsese
This particular collection of photographs showcases the earlier career of Bob Dylan beginning with photographs from 1961 – Bob Dylan tuning his guitar at Columbia’s recording studios in New York City – one of his first ever recording sessions. He signed to Columbia Records in October of that year.
‘I was in a unique position, given complete access and trust. I liked Dylan’s work, he liked mine. He knew I would make him look interesting – and he was. I knew I was in the presence of genius.’ – Barry Feinstein, Photographer
Bob Dylan has been described as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, musically and culturally. Dylan was included in the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century where he was called “master poet, caustic social critic and intrepid, guiding spirit of the counterculture generation”
Bringing It All Back Home is Dylan’s fifth studio album, released in March 1965 by Columbia Records.
The album is divided into an electric and an acoustic side which surprised listeners for the first of many times by turning his back on folk purism.
This exhibition has been aptly titled around this particular album – the music Dylan made in 1965 and 1966 revolutionized rock – as his lyrics continued their trend toward the abstract and personal, bringing intellectual ambition to popular music.
A portrait of the beginnings of the ever-changing Bob Dylan.
All photographs in this exhibition will be for sale in a range of sizes from 16 x 20 inches upwards.
Photographs are a selection of beautiful handmade silver gelatin prints, archival Fine-Art prints on Hahnemühle paper and colour photographic prints. All are created from the original negatives.
EXHIBITION DATES: July 2nd – August 3rd 2010
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