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The Day Bob Dylan Became Bob Dylan

American photographer Rowland Scherman photographed many of the iconic musical, cultural, and political events of the 1960s, including the Beatles’ first US concert, and Woodstock. In 1963, he covered the Newport Folk Festival, where musician Bob Dylan appeared for the first time, on stage with Joan Baez.

In June 1963, I was working in Washington DC shooting PR pictures for the Peace Corps. That may sound mundane, but I had been doing it since the inception of the new agency, and had literally traveled the world photographing the volunteers at work in...

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Rowland Scherman

Rowland Scherman is an American photographer who was born in New York in 1937.

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