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Barry Feinstein dies at 80; rock music photographer
Barry Feinstein shot more than 500 album covers, including Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changin' ' and George Harrison's 'All Things Must Pass.'
Barry Feinstein
PHOTO: Barry Feinstein is captured in a photograph by singer Bob Dylan. Feinstein was the official photographer of Dylan's European tour in 1966 and shot the cover of the musician's album "The Times They Are A-Changin'." (Barry Feinstein Photography)
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
October 21, 2011
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Barry Feinstein, a photographer who gained renown as one of the premier chroniclers of the 1960s and '70s music scene, including shooting iconic album covers for Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and George Harrison, has died. He was 80.
Feinstein, a longtime resident of Woodstock, N.Y., who had been in failing health the last 10 years, died Thursday at a hospital in Kingston, N.Y., said his wife, Judith Jamison Feinstein.
In an award-winning career that began in the 1950s and included shooting many of Hollywood's biggest stars, Feinstein had photos published in Life, Look, Time, Esquire, Newsweek and other magazines.
He photographed more than 500 album covers, including Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'," Joplin's "Pearl," Harrison's "All Things Must Pass," the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man," Dave Mason's "Alone Together" and Eric Clapton's debut solo album "Eric Clapton."
"I'd put Barry in the top five of all-time rock photographers," said Peter Blachley, owner of the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City, which represents Feinstein's photography.
Feinstein's success was due not only to the way he composed his shots and his other skills as a photographer, Blachley said, but "the way he was able to get the access to deliver those shots. And that access is gained by his personality with artists.
"They loved working with Barry, and that makes a great music photographer."
When he shot the cover for George Harrison's 1970 "All Things Must Pass" album, Feinstein recalled in a 2002 interview with the Washington Times, he photographed for days outside the singer's home at Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames, England.
"Then, someone called [Harrison] and told him that the gnomes that were stolen from Friar Park in about 1871 could be bought back. They asked him if he wanted to buy them back. He said, 'Sure.' They brought them back and laid them on the lawn. We went out and looked at them. I said, 'There's the cover.'
"We didn't move a thing. In about two minutes, we had the cover. It was spontaneous."
Harrison later asked Feinstein to document the historic fundraising Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden in 1971.
Feinstein was best known for his long association with Dylan, for whom he was the official photographer on the European portion of Dylan's 1966 world tour and the 1974 Dylan and The Band tour.
One of Feinstein's famous Dylan photos, taken in London in 1966, shows the singer in the back of a limousine smoking a cigarette and gazing straight ahead through dark sunglasses, seemingly oblivious to the fans' faces pressed against the closed window.
A collection of his Dylan photos appear in Feinstein's 2008 book "Real Moments: Bob Dylan."
"I wanted my pictures to say something," Feinstein wrote. "I don't really like stand-up portraits; there's nothing there, no life, no feeling. I was much more interested in capturing real moments."
"Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript," a collection of Feinstein's early Hollywood photos and poems Dylan had written in 1964 to accompany them, also was published in 2008.
"If he wasn't a photographer but was a writer, he would have been very much like Paddy Chayefsky," Blachley said. "He had a very interesting way of looking at the world around him."
One of Feinstein's Hollywood photographs, he said, is of a movie studio parking lot "and there's a big sign in front that says 'Talent Lot,' and it's empty; there's nothing in it."
Feinstein was born Feb. 4, 1931, in Philadelphia. He spent a year at the University of Miami and had a stint in the Coast Guard before launching his career in photography. After arriving in Hollywood, he became a studio photographer for Columbia Pictures.
Feinstein, who was a cameraman on the classic 1968 documentary "Monterey Pop," also was the director-cameraman on the 1968 music documentary "You Are What You Eat."
A close friend of actor Steve McQueen, he also shot stills during the production of McQueen's 1968 classic film "Bullitt."
Noting that her husband had a photography and design studio in Los Angeles for many years, Judith Jamison Feinstein said: "Steve McQueen would pick him up every day at 4 o'clock when he was done with business and off they'd go motorcycling through the Hollywood Hills."
Feinstein was previously married and divorced from singer Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary, with whom he had a daughter, Alicia; and to actress Carol Wayne, with whom he had a son, Alex.
In addition to his wife and two children, he is survived by three stepchildren, Erica Marshall and Jasper and Jake Jamison; and three grandchildren.
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Norio Ohga, former Sony president and chairman, dies
By the CNN Wire Staff
April 23, 2011 9:30 p.m. EDT
A 2002 file photo of Norio Ohga.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Ohga is credited with helping to develop the compact disc
He led the company's growth in music, games and movies
Ohga died of multiple organ failure at 81
Tokyo (CNN) -- Norio Ohga, the former president and chairman of Sony Corporation who helped to develop the compact disc, died Saturday of multiple organ failure, the company said. He was 81.
Ohga worked for what is now Sony as a consultant and adviser while still a music student in Tokyo, before joining the company full time in 1959.
He rose to the ranks of chairman and president and is credited with driving the company's growth in movies, video games and music.
Ohga saw the potential of the compact disc early and spearheaded Sony's efforts in that area, the company said.
His training as a musician led him to push for a 12-centimeter format, providing enough storage to allow listeners to hear all of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony without interruption, according to Sony. Those specifications are still in use today.
The company sold the world's first CD in 1982 and within five years, CD sales overtook LP record sales in Japan.
Ohga is also credited with launching Sony's game business and was head of Sony when it bought Columbia Pictures in 1989.
He was a senior adviser to Sony at the time of his death.
"By redefining Sony as a company encompassing both hardware and software, Ohga-san succeeded where other Japanese companies failed. It is no exaggeration to attribute Sony's evolution beyond audio and video products into music, movies and games, and subsequent transformation into a global entertainment leader to Ohga-san's foresight and vision," Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer said in a statement.
"I offer my deepest condolences on his passing and pray that he may rest in peace."Norio Ohga, former Sony president and chairman, dies
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Spider-Man 4 Canceled, New Film Planned for 2012
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Sony has picked up Mark Millar and Tony Harris' comicbook "War Heroes" for Michael De Luca to produce.
Studio's Columbia Pictures is currently seeking a writer to adapt the books, which revolve around an experimental military program that gives ordinary soldiers superpowers. When a small group of recruits break off to use these powers for a criminal enterprise, a hero rises from their ranks to prevent catastrophic results.
Several studios had been vying for the six-part property, which began publishing in June through Image Comics.
Millar and Harris will be exec producers on the pic, along with Zach Schiff Abrams.
Universal scored this summer with an adaptation of Millar's graphic novel "Wanted." An adaptation of his comicbook "Kick-Ass" is lensing with Matthew Vaughn at the helm.
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