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The man who shot Bob Dylan

They were the most mercurial years od a tempestuous career ... and Jerry Shatzberg's camera was able to capture the drama of an artist at the peak of his powers. The photographer tells Alan Taylor he he did it

JERRY Schatzberg requires little prompting to recall the first time he encountered Bob Dylan. In all probability, the year was 1965, Dylan's annus mirabilis, when he released the albums Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited.