May 24, 2011

Like It Was Yesterday: The Photographs of Brad Elterman

Bob Dylan turns 70 today, and photographer Brad Elterman talks about photographing him and other celebrities.

I was just a young kid, 18, 19, 20-years-old.

I realized very soon that a picture of somebody holding a guitar, Dylan or whoever, it didn’t really matter, to me that wasn’t an interesting photograph.

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  1. Joel Bernstein on May 24th, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    I was about to say “Man, that guy looks just like a scruffy Jakob Dylan” and then I read the caption.

  2. Sheila Ryan on May 24th, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    I like the observation about what makes for an interesting photograph.

    After cfs3, on the drive from Fannin County to Dallas, Amanda Mae recorded a short interview with me about my career as an archivist. (For school! For extra credit!) One thing I mentioned was my work with performing arts archives, which people often think must be so cool and which are often incredibly boring. Pictures of people on a stage. Programs and posters. Boring.

    The “papers” of individual performing (and other) artists — those can be different. Sometimes.

    But pictures of somebody holding a guitar. Nine times out of ten: Nope.

  3. Phil Bebbington on May 24th, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    People are always powerful. As for people with guitars? I don’t have much of an opinion. A good shot is a good shot, I guess.

  4. Sheila Ryan on May 24th, 2011 at 1:28 pm

    Well, a guitar is not an automatic disqualifier, I reckon. Actually, I can think of great photos of people with guitars. But I think I understand what he was saying.

  5. Sheila Ryan on May 24th, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    I could probably show better than I could tell what I mean.

  6. Daryl Scroggins on May 25th, 2011 at 5:59 am

    What a great photograph. Too close to passion elsewhere.

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