Hipsters take notes: Bob Dylan: Unscripted, 42 black and white
photographs by LOOK Magazine photographer Douglas R. Gilbert,
captures

Dylan's beatnik essence of cool. The collection is on view at the
Perfect Exposure Gallery through March 18.

Entering the gallery, the music of Dylan croons on the speakers and
the simple display of black-framed 11 x 14 inch photographs lines the
walls

interspersed with inappropriately oversized (30 x 45 inch), matted
works that are too similar to commercial concert posters.
Assigned in 1964 to cover Dylan for LOOK magazine, Douglas R.
Gilbert's awe for the folk singer and excitement for his assignment
is evident

in these portraits of Dylan in action. Each frame —performing with
Joan Baez at the Newport Folk Festival, writing at his typewriter,
playing

guitar at a Woodstock café with friends, riding his Triumph styled in
aviator sunglasses— has the same voyeuristic view as the next,
leaving a

considerable distance between photographer and subject. The most
dramatic portrait of Dylan watching Dean Martin on late night
television in

the dark with a glass of red wine simply documents what Dylan is
doing rather than what Dylan is thinking. Ultimately, who Bob Dylan
is drives

this collection of photographs more so than the technique used to
photograph him.


Never published because the folk singer was described as "too scruffy
for a family magazine", these historical rock documents, with the

gallery's musical accompaniment, are a nostalgic return to the
counter culture of the 1960s.

Bob Dylan: Unscripted
Through March 18
@ Perfect Exposure Gallery :: 3513 W. 6th St.