After the photos and text were pulled together into a rough manuscript, Dylan and Feinstein took it to a publisher, Macmillan, where executives were afraid that the pictures would bring a lawsuit from the studio. So Feinstein kept it for more than four decades in his vast collection of photographs, books and other papers. He went on to develop a close collaboration with Dylan. He shot the cover photo for The Times They Are A-Changin’, and dozens of photos of Dylan throughout the years.
Christopher Ricks, a professor of the humanities at Boston University and the author of Dylan’s Visions of Sin, noted the contrast between the Hollywood book, in its black-and-white starkness, and Dylan’s most recent book, the collection of cheerful, brightly coloured paintings. “From the beginning, he’s been a mixed medium artist,” Ricks said.
- JULIE BOSMAN, NYT