Thread by @dean_frey

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
📷 Elliott Landy, Woodstock NY, 1968
Outside his Byrdcliffe home, infrared color film

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Jim Marshall
Bob Dylan (with Tire), New York, 1963

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Barry Feinstein
Bob Dylan checks out an El Greco at @PhillipsMuseum, 1974

Another Barry Feinstein photo from Bob Dylan's visit to the Phillips Collection in 1974. This time it's a Modigliani portrait.

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan & Suze Rotolo at their West 4th Street Greenwich Village home
Photo: Don Hunstein, February 1963

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan by Guido Harari, 1984
This was taken in Sirmione, near Verona, during Dylan's tour with Carlos Santana.

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Don Hunstein
Bob Dylan & Suze Rotolo from February 1963. This is on the stoop of Dylan's apartment on 4th Street in Greenwich Village.
"The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves," Dylan said when he first met Rotolo.

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Ken Regan
Bob Dylan walks through the snow in Bangor, Maine, 1975

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan by Art Kane, 1966
"I told him, 'I’m going to stay until I get what I want.' I finally manoeuvred him into a corner, he slid down and looked up. I had my shot."

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan and Hedy West
Photo: Joe Alper, 1962

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan by Danny Clinch
Los Angeles, 1999

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan by Barry Feinstein
Ireland, 1966

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan & Sally Grossman by Daniel Kramer, 1965
This photo was used on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home, released the same year
Subterranean Homesick Blues

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Jeff Bridges
Luke Wilson, Bob Dylan, and Jessica Lange
'Bobby Cupid,' 'Jack Fate,' and 'Nina Veronica'
Masked and Anonymous
2003
@EastmanMuseum

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan on his motorcycle
Photo: John Launois, 1964
Careful, Bob!

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan at Wembley Stadium
Photo: Michael Putland, 1984

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan by Annie Leibovitz
Los Angeles, 1977

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan by Rowland Scherman, 1966

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Henry Leutwyler
Bob Dylan's harmonica

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Val Wilmer
Dylan at BBC TV Centre, London, 1st June 1965

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Fiona Adams
The Savoy, London, May 1966

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
H. Thompson
London, April 28, 1965

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Singers Club Christmas party on his first visit to Britain, December 22, 1962
Photo: Brian Shuel

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Aaron Rapoport for Rolling Stone Magazine, 1983

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Rowland Scherman
Newport Folk Festival, July 1963

Coffee break! ☕️
Mark and Colleen Hayward
Free Trade Hall Concert, May 17, 1965

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
John Cohen, New York, 1962

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Jerry Schatzberg
New York, January 28, 1966

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Elliott Landy
From the Nashville Skyline album cover photoshoot, 1968

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
At a Jerry Schatzberg photoshoot in New York, August 18, 1965.
That's Bob Neuwirth photographing him from below.

@Holdenberg: Time to call Bob! #PhoneCallFromPaul

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Keith Beaty, July 16, 1972
At the Mariposa Folk Festival on Olympic Island, Toronto

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Richard McCaffrey
During the 1979 Gospel Tour, at the Fox Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, November 1979

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Jerry Schatzberg
New York, December 28, 1965

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan by Lynn Goldsmith, 1981
"If you hang around with Bob Dylan long enough, someone is bound to come up & ask him if he is God, or tell him why they are sure he is God, or ask if he can help them find God."

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
“Hi, I’m Lynn Goldsmith & I’d like to make some pictures.” He replied, “Well, that’s not necessary, I have a photographer.” I said, “With two photographers, you get two points of view!” He said “I get your point of view.”
1976

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Don Hunstein
Dylan & Suze walking down Jones Street toward 4th West Street, West Village, February 1963
Is this my favourite? Do I have to choose a favourite? Okay, it's my favourite.

This shot, of course, was used on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Dylan insisted that the first volume of his memoirs, Chronicles, use another Don Hunstein photo on its cover: Times Square in the rain, 1961

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Ken Regan, 1975
“'What’s with the whiteface?' I asked Bob. Nobody could figure that out. He said, 'Well, I’m playing these halls & it’s really dark. I want people way in the back to be able to see my eyes.' Okay, whatever."

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Joe Alper
Wedding Serenade, 1962
I don't know the story behind this picture, but I sure would love to.

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Joe Alper
Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo, 1962

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Barry Feinstein, 1964
This was used on the cover of The Times They Are A-Changin'

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Barry Feinstein
Bob Dylan & three Liverpulians, Liverpool, 1966
This is wonderful!

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
With the Grateful Dead
Herb Greene, 1987

Time for another break?
Barry Feinstein, Birmingham, England, 1966

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
John Downing, August 20, 1986

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
John Byrne Cooke
With Mimi Farina at the Viking Hotel, Newport, Rhode Island, July 1964

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Aaron Rapoport
Tom Petty & Bob Dylan pose for a Rolling Stone Magazine cover in Los Angeles, 1986

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Ed Caraeff
Dylan in front of the "Isle of California" mural, painted in 1972, by Victor Henderson, Terry Schoonhoven & Jim Frazin of the L.A. Fine Arts Squad, 1974

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Don Hunstein
Highway 61 Revisited playback in the booth of Columbia's Studio A, New York, summer 1965. That Dylan's manager Albert Grossman to his right.

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Larry Hulst
Dylan & Robbie Robertson during The Band's 'The Last Waltz' concert at the Winterland Ballroom
San Francisco, November 25, 1976

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Fred W. McDarrah
Christopher Park, New York, January 22, 1965
This is fabulous: I didn't realize McDarrah had photographed Dylan.

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
I love this 1975 shot by Thomas S. England: Dylan with Benny Goodman & John Hammond. Remarkably, record producer John Hammond discovered both!

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Tony Evans, London, 1964

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Another Fred W. McDarrah photo from Christopher Park, New York, January 22, 1965

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Elliott Landy, 1970
"I’d like to drive a race car on the Indianapolis track. I’d like to kick a field goal in an NFL football game. I’d like to be able to hit a hundred-mile-an-hour baseball. But you have to know your place."

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan & Joan Baez by David Gahr
Woodstock NY, July 1963

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Kim Komenich
Dylan at Jerry Garcia's funeral, 1995

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
David Gahr
Dylan with a local denizen of the Bowery District on East 4th Street in the East Village, December 2, 1971

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Jerry Schatzberg
A contact sheet from a 1965 photoshoot
"He looks really soulful in these shots. Every picture on that roll is great.”

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Jerry Schatzberg for Saturday Evening Post, 1965
“I took him near the Brooklyn Bridge for it. I liked shooting in downtown Manhattan."

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan's desk in Los Angeles.
Photo: Lisa Law, 1966
This is from my very, very long #writersdesks thread

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Judy Linn
Patti Smith as Bob Dylan

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
John Cohen, New York, 1962
Bob Dylan as urchin

For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
Bob Dylan picked up random objects from Jerry Schatzberg's studio, & they came up with wonderful shots like this.

The law of diminishing returns didn't seem to be working today. I could have posted many more Bob Dylan portraits here. I was surprised by the photos of Fred W. McDarrah, which I hadn't seen before...

Thanks for hanging out here on Bob's birthday! 🎂
I'll end with an early shot by David Gahr: Bob Dylan in front of the Folklore Center, the legendary folk music store on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, May 1962