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Rowland Scherman is an American 
Official website
Eye on the Sixties
photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs.
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Rowland Scherman was born in New York in 1937. He studied at Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...
, and was dark room apprentice at ''Life
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'' magazine. He was the first photographer for the newly formed Peace Corps
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in 1961. His photographs appeared in ''Life'', '' Look'', ''Time
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'', ''National Geographic
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'', ''Paris Match
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'' and ''Playboy
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'', among many others, and he photographed many of the iconic musical, cultural, and political events of the 1960s, including the 1963 Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival is an annual American folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the Newport Jazz Festival. The festival was founded by music promoter and Jazz Festival founder Geor ...
, the Beatles
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first US concert, and Woodstock
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock. Billed as "a ...
. He won a Grammy Award
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in 1968 for his photograph cover of ''Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
''Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits'' is a 1967 compilation album of songs by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Released on March 27, 1967, by Columbia Records, it was a stopgap between Dylan's studio albums '' Blonde on Blonde'' and '' John Wesley ...
''. His published collections include "Love Letters", an alphabet formed by posed dancers, and "Elvis is Everywhere." He lived in Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama, Jefferson County. The population was 200,733 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List ...
, and documented Alabama's Highway 11. He now lives on Cape Cod.
Rowland Scherman describes his day as the official photographer for USIA at the March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (commonly known as the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington) was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rig ...
, 1963.
In his book, ''Timeless--photography of Rowland Scherman'', Scherman shows and comments on some of his most famous pictures.
A documentary movie was made about Rowland Scherman by Chris Szwedo, called Eye on the Sixties; it has been shown on public television and at the Smithsonian.
References
External links
Official website
Eye on the Sixties