Hollywood’s Lost Manuscript
If you’re a Bob Dylan fan you may have seen his poems published recently in The New Yorker. And if you were around in the 60′s, you’re no doubt familiar with the illuminating photographs of Barry Feinstein. Together the pics and poems form the basis of a new book, Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript, available next month from Simon & Schuster.
A synopsis: Surfacing for the first time after more than forty years, Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric is a remarkable, long-lost manuscript written by Bob Dylan in the 1960s, inspired by renowned photographer Barry Feinstein’s portraits of Tinseltown. These twenty-three prose poems are thoughtprovoking, witty, and thoroughly unexpected observations of a bygone era, and through the lens of Feinstein’s camera they speak volumes about the faces and places that have graced the City of Angels. Images like those of Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, and Steve McQueen resonate with our collective memory, while photographs of hopeful starlets, movie studio backlots, and sunny, palm tree’d boulevards evoke the timeless allure of all things Hollywood.
~ by Errant Aesthete on 10/04/08.
Posted in Cultural Infusions, Culture, New & Notable
Tags: barryfeinstein, BobDylan, book, Photography, Poetry, pop, sixties
