Elliott Landy, one of the foremost music photographers of the Woodstock generation, will release a new book of photos of The Band.
Even if you don’t know Elliott Landy by name, you’ll undoubtedly recognize the photographs for which he is famous. Born in 1942, Landy was the official photographer of the Woodstock Music Festival, and his images of festivalgoers and performers like Joan Baez, Johnny Winter, and Janis Joplin have helped to sustain Woodstock in the imagination of melomaniacs ever since. His naturalistic portraits of music legends like Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison offer an exceptional proximity to icons who might seem otherwise unreachable. He is often credited as one of the first photographers to raise music photography to the stratum of fine art.
A large portion of Landy’s portfolio comprises images of The Band—the five-piece ensemble who backed Bob Dylan and later went on to record hits like “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”—right here in the Hudson Valley. His latest monograph, The Band Photographs, 1968-1969, published in 2016, was the highest-funded photobook in the history of Kickstarter, a “crowdfunding platform focused on creativity.” Now, Landy is raising money to support the publication of a second book of never-before-seen images from his stint photographing The Band.
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