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Bob Dylan
A rare set of twelve black and white contact prints by Don Hunstein, February, 1963, each half-length portrait of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo an alternative version for the front cover of Dylan's second album Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the shots taken inside Dylan's apartment in Greenwich Village, New York, inscribed on the reverse in pencil in Suze's hand Taken at 161 W4 St NYC Winter 1963 for FREEWHEELIN test cover shots... -- 9¾x8in. (24.8x20.3cm.); accompanied by three black and white photographs of Dylan playing guitar, 1961-1962, each with photographer's ink-stamp credit to verso, one by Joe Alper; and a black and white photograph by David Gahr, signed by photographer, with photographer's ink-stamp credit to verso, showing Suze Rotolo and Dylan in Newport, Rhode Island during the Newport Folk Festival, 1963, all -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.) (5)

Provenance

The Personal Archives of Suze Rotolo.

Literature

DYLAN, Bob Chronicles - Volume 1, Op. Cit, p.267

Lot Essay

In Chronicles Dylan describes his Greenwich Village apartment on West 4th Street: ....I rented a third floor walk-up apartment at 161 West 4th Street at sixty dollars a month. It wasn't much, just two rooms above Bruno's spaghetti parlor, next door to the local record store and a furniture supply shop...the apartment had a tiny bedroom, more like a large closet, and a kitchenette, a living room with a fireplace and two windows...There was barely room enough for one person and the heat went off after dark and the place had to be heated by keeping both gas burners up full blast...

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