![]() Ken recognizes the voice immediately – it is Bob Dylan. Ken is a straight talker from the Bronx: “Barry, if this is a f***ing joke, I’m gonna hunt you down and take you apart completely.” Dylan? Kemp Fisheries? What? He asks to get Barry Imhoff back on the phone. He is co-promoting a tour for Bob Dylan, and they want Ken to photograph the entire tour and come on the road with them for a few months. He then passes the phone to Lou Kemp, who introduces himself as a childhood friend of Bob Dylan, and tells Ken that he runs a company called Kemp Fisheries. There is talk of a tour, something a little different. ![]() But Barry is in New York, and asks Ken what he is up to for the next couple of months. Unsurprisingly given the hour, Ken thinks Barry is calling from the west coast and hasn’t taken the time difference into account. The phone wakes him at 3 am, and on the line is Bill Graham’s partner, Barry Imhoff. It is the summer of 1975, and Ken Regan is at home in bed. How did it come about? To answer that, we have to step back. So just how did Ken Regan come to be the exclusive official photographer on the first leg of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975? He never talked in depth about his time on the tour-for good reason-he wanted his photographs do the talking. Some signed examples are also available, but quantities are low for these.Īs you scroll down through the images you will also be able to read about a stunning large format limited edition book of Ken’s photographs from the tour. Individual images are available to purchase as posthumous estate authorised limited edition photographs. Ken passed away in 2012, and his estate looks after his archive. The Rolling Thunder Revue was a tour of two halves, and Ken covered the first leg, with concerts starting on 30 October 1975 at the War Memorial Auditorium in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and ending with a benefit concert for Rubin Carter at Madison Square Garden in New York on 8 December 1975. Bob had given me free rein to shoot it all-onstage, offstage, dressing rooms, parties, trailers, whatever was going on.” I could walk into his dressing room at any given point and photograph anything he was doing. For a professional photographer, it just didn’t get any better. He had complete, unrestricted and exclusive access. Ken Regan took almost 14,000 photographs during his time with Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue. ![]() He was the exclusive official photographer on the first leg of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975. Ken Regan’s photographs will be well-known to Bob Dylan fans, as his images appear on the cover of Desire, The Bootleg Series Volume 5 and Hard Rain.
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