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Famous Music Photographer Barry Feinstein Dies at 80

artwork: Barry Feinstein's best known images include the picture of George Harrison sitting among garden gnomes on his 1970 solo album, "All Things Must Pass". Photographed for days outside the singer's home at Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames, England.


Kingston, NY – 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.