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 and Columbia labels, 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.
Don Hunstein's photograph of a 21-year-old Dylan walking arm-in-arm with girlfriend Suze Rotolo down a snowy Greenwich Village street defined the visual template for singer-songwriter culture: intimate, urban, unpretentious, romantic.
