This long-lost ’60s collaboration between photographer Barry Feinstein and Bob Dylan is a welcome entry into the many-faceted career of the songwriter. Here he puts poetry – much in the vein of his mid-’60s Rimbaud-influenced lyrics – to Feinstein’s images.
The photographs themselves are stark black and white, showing odd, scattered slices of Hollywood, from a Chaplin wax statue to a bottle of Marilyn Monroe’s pills to shots of Gary Cooper’s funeral. It’s a somewhat disjointed collection but retains the curious thrill of uncovering an old scrapbook in your grandparents’ attic.
Grade: A-
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript is currently available.
Books: Non-Fiction
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript
(Simon & Schuster)
By Mike Sebastian

Article posted on 2/19/2009
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