Rock and roll on the other side of the lens

Photographers Pattie Boyd, Henry Diltz, Joel Bernstein and Graham Nash, who is also known for the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, without knowing it, became one of the best chroniclers of rock and roll. Having got behind the scenes of this world and made friends with the coolest rock stars, they shot, aiming the lens at everyday life, but got into history.

(Total 16 photos)

Source: American Photo

Patti Boyd received her first camera as a gift from her husband, George Harrison of The Beatles, and had no idea she was photographing something great. “I thought I was just taking pictures of my friends. Of course they were great models. Can you imagine? Great guys. But I had no idea what would come of it in the future,” she says. Boyd's second husband was Eric Clapton, whom she also filmed. After that, she began her career as a photographer. In the photo - George Harrison is resting during a trip to India, 1968.

Self-portrait of Patti Boyd with George Harrison "Rose Garden".

"Another hotel room" - Eric Clapton, 1974 Patty Boyd.

Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger in 1985. Patty Boyd.

Henry Diltz has been in the world of rock 'n' roll since the very beginning. He played banjo with the Modern Folk Quartet in the early 1960s and toured as a musician. During one tour, he took a used camera with him, and away we go. After some time, his pictures were on the album covers of his fellow musicians, on posters and in advertising publications. According to the photographer, his musical career contributed a lot to the documentary and liveliness of his pictures. “I was not on the set, where “oh, here is the photographer, everyone dropped everything and posed.” We just hung out together." In the photo - the trio Crosby, Stills & Nash. This picture was featured on the cover of the band's debut album.

Cover photo for James Taylor's Sweet Baby James album by Henry Diltz.

Keith Richards on tour with the New Barbarians in 1979 by Henry Diltz.

Ray Charles in 1980 by Henry Diltz.

Singer Joni Mitchell, 1969 Graham Nash.

Graham Nash is a British singer-songwriter best known as a member of the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He also documented the world of rock 'n' roll from the inside out, and in 1990 his photographs became the material for one of the first experiments in high quality digital inkjet printing. He was so impressed with the quality that he bought a $126,000 Iris 3047 inkjet printer to print his photographs and then created Nash Editions, one of the world's first professional digital art printing studios. Pictured is ex-Byrds singer David Crosby in 1987.

Neil Young during the recording of After the Gold Rush by Graham Nash.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young vocalist Steven Stills during work on the Deja Vu album, Graham Nash.

Joel Bernstein has a lot of experience filming in the world of rock and roll: he started at the age of 17. He recalls taking several photographs of singer Joni Mitchell during her performances in clubs and then bringing her printed pictures. She liked it very much and invited Bernstein to be her personal photographer. He has worked with Neil Young, Prince, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Pictured is singer Joni Mitchell.

Neil Young album cover photo After the Gold Rush by Joel Bernstein.

Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey, 1980 Joel Bernstein.

While on tour for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1974, Joel Bernstein.