WASHINGTON: Barry Feinstein, whose iconic photographs of 1960s rockers included the cover of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'" died Thursday after a long illness, his wife said. He was 80.
Feinstein also snapped Janis Joplin for her album "Pearl" a day before she died, and George Harrison flanked by garden gnomes for his post-Beatles solo outing "All Things Must Pass."
"He was a curmudgeon, but a lovely curmudgeon," his wife Judith Jamison told AFP by telephone from Woodstock, outside New York City, adding that Feinstein died in hospital early Thursday.
Among the photographer's many fans was director Martin Scorsese, who used Feinstein's images in his documentaries about Dylan ("No Direction Home") and Harrison (the just-released "Living in the Material World").
Working mostly with black-and-white film -- and, Jamison said, "only Nikons" -- Feinstein also turned his lenses on Hollywood, capturing stars like Marlin Brando, Judy Garland, Barbara Streisand and, in his racing car, Steve McQueen.
"Doing editorial photography is a lot about luck," he once said in an interview for a retrospective of his Los Angeles work at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York.
"Being at the right place at the right time, getting the right picture -- and you're out of it," he said. "You don't have to set anybody up or anything like that."
Feinstein is the third major photographer of the 1960s rock and roll scene to die in the past two years, after Jim Marshall in March last year at the age of 74 and Robert Whitaker last month at 71.
He is survived by two children from his prior marriages to folk singer Mary Travers and television actress Carol Wayne, and by three grandsons.
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