David Gahr 1922–2008

David Gahr died on Sunday. He was born in Milwaukee, the son of Russian immigrant parents, and gave up a career as an economist to photograph musicians. He was perhaps most closely associated with Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, but he photographed hundreds and hundreds of musicians and artists. Above and below, a couple of examples of his work.

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Mike  (Thanks to Greg Heins)

Featured Comment by Richard Carlin: "Check out some of my personal memories of working with David."

Featured Comment by Kevin Avery: "Thanks for remembering Dave and his work. I wrote about him, too, over at my blog."

Comments

[Carl Blesch]

NY Times obit at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/arts/music/29gahr.html?scp=1&sq=David+Gahr&st=nyt

[Jason]

These are two great samples you have here - will have to check out more about him. How you find and know to post about such gems is amazing...my summer is already full of must-reads and photographers works to view...

[Mike Johnston]

"How you find and know to post about such gems is amazing..."

Jason,
Thanks, but not really. This one was courtesy of a tip from a reader, Greg Heins, who I thanked in the byline of the post. (I always try to thank people for tips if I can. The exceptions are when lots of people send me the same tip, which happens fairly often, or when I forget and can't find the original email, which is rare.)

Greg got the info from what I call the world's* greatest photography magazine, The New York Times.

Mike J.

*Okay, just America's. Not the world's.

[David Gahr]

I am from Austria and my name is David Gahr i google it and i found that wow now im the last david gahr (i think) ^^