2 album covers in our archive
Bob Dylan is featured in Behind the Covers' archive with 2 album covers from the 1960s. Released across Columbia Records, the artwork sits in the folk, rock tradition. Each cover is documented in our archive with design notes covering portrait, close up, soft focus, intimate, atmospheric, photography. Below you'll find the full story behind each Bob Dylan cover — designers, photographers, label history, and the visual choices that defined the release.
Fashion photographer Jerry Schatzberg captured Dylan in a rushed Manhattan session, creating one of rock's most enigmatic portraits. The blurred, intimate close-up became a template for introspective album covers across decades.
A freezing February afternoon in Greenwich Village, a young couple walking arm-in-arm down a slushy street, and a photographer who admitted he had no real plan. The shot that resulted rewrote what an album cover could be. But the woman beside Bob Dylan was never named, and four songs vanished from the record just before it shipped.
