Govinda Gallery

The great writer and activist James Baldwin was born 100 years ago this month. We celebrate his life and his work with these photographs by Ted Russell of Baldwin taken in 1963 with Bob Dylan.

Govinda Gallery Director, Chris Murray writes in the introduction to Russell’s photo book Bob Dylan NYC 1961-1964 (Rizzoli) about Baldwin and Dylan and these photographs, “In 1963, on assignment for LIFE, Russell photographed Dylan receiving the Tom Paine Award for distinguished service in the fight for civil liberty from the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee at their annual Bill of Rights Dinner in New York City. Author James Baldwin who was a speaker that evening, sat on the Dias with Dylan and clearly enjoyed their time together. Baldwin himself frequented old Greenwich Village and he and Dylan seem like kindred spirits in Russell’s photographs of the remarkable event.”

Chris Murray will be giving an audio/visual presentation on Ted Russell and his photographs October 23rd, at the 1310 Restaurant in The Georgetown Inn, Washington D.C.

Ted Russell’s photographs are available through Govinda Gallery.