Behind the Covers

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1 cover story in our archive

Behind the Covers' archive includes 1 album cover documented under the "street" design theme, all from the 1960s. The cover sits within the folk tradition and features work by Bob Dylan. Each entry below includes the cover artwork, the designers and photographers behind it, and a short story about the visual choices that defined the release.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan — album cover art

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan (1963)

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.

Label
Columbia
Photographer
Don Hunstein
Genre
Folk
Decade
1960s
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