David Gahr (Sept. 18, 1922 – May 25, 2008) was an American photographer. He was one of "the pre-eminent photographers of American folk, blues, jazz and rock musicians of the 1960s and beyond." (Bruce Weber, The New York Times, May 29, 2008).
His photographic output includes more than five decades of musicians like Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Sonny Terry, John Lennon, and Pete Seeger, among others. He published a book, "The Face of Folk Music" (Citadel Press, 1968) with writer Robert Shelton that captured the exploding American Folk music scene, with hundreds of images including Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Odetta, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Mary Travers, and Johnny Cash, among others.
Dozens of Wikipedia pages include reference to Gahr's photographs, like those of The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, His Band and the Street Choir, Love, God, Murder, The Fugs First Album, Doc Watson and Son, Doc Watson at Gerdes Folk City, Stages: The Lost Album, The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and others.
He leaves behind a son and his beloved daughter, Carla Gahr (who is also a NYC-based photographer and who, with her Dad, managed the David Gahr photography studio and archives)
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