Bob Dylan, Paris, 2009 Archival Pigment Print

Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 50 11x14", 16x20" or 20x24"     April in Paris. This has always been a romantic notion, and for someone like me, who grew up having a love affair with Bob Dylan’s music, the offer to fly to Paris and shoot Bob Dylan for the cover of Rolling Stone, on my birthday, is about as romantic as it gets, photographically speaking. I almost couldn’t believe the assignment when I heard it over the phone. Jodi Peckman, the photography director of Rolling Stone magazine, had called my cell. I remember exactly where I was—in the parking lot of Paramount Pictures Hollywood, on my way to a meeting. In her typical understated way, she cut right to the chase. “ I need you to shoot Bob Dylan for me. It’s a cover, but before you say yes, it has to be in Paris.”  That’s like saying, I need you to go surfing with me, but before you say yes, know that we have to go to Fiji.   The double-edged sword of being a photographer is that you often d