Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo’s $60 a month apartment at 161 West 4th Street, top floor, the 3rd floor at the back, facing the alleyway behind 6th Avenue.
“The photographer was deeply into jazz and knew nothing about folk music, but sensing intriguing story possibilities, Russell showed up at Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village to photograph 20-year-old Bob Dylan in action. Russell was mightily impressed with the tiny club’s great lighting, but he doesn’t remember a thing about the music. “I was looking through the viewfinder for every change of expression and oblivious to everything else,” he says. “I didn’t have a clue that the man I was photographing would become this international star idolized all over the world.” A couple of days later, Russell visited Dylan and his girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, at their Village apartment. “I said, ‘Please do whatever you would be doing if I weren’t here,’ and they did just what I asked them to do: They ignored me.”
Photograph courtesy of Ted Russell. 1962
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