Bob Dylan was among the first musicians to discover the sleep Catskills town of Woodstock, a name later synonymous with the most famous rock festival ever. Dylan first visited as early as 1963, but it was after his 1966 motorcycle crash that he retreated to this upstate New York hideaway.

Here, newly married and freed from the demands of touring which had so nearly killed him, he settled into a more relaxed pace, enjoying family life. So began a period of astonishing creativity, which spawned the legendary Basement Tapes, Harding and Nashville Skyline albums, a time when Bob withdrew from the public eye. Elliott Landy's photographs provide the unseen visual record of the missing years.

Elliott Landy was there in Woodstock in that period to capture probably the most striking and intimate photographs of Bob Dylan ever taken, including the iconic cover shot for Nashville Skyline and numerous out-takes from that session, which featured shoots at several different locations including the local bakery.

Elliott was invited to photograph Bob at his home, and created unique informal images of his subject - seated at the piano, bouncing on a trampoline, playing guitar on a garden bench, sitting out on the porch, or just throwing out the trash in the back yard.

Dylan's Woodstock sparring partners The Band were also the subject of many photo sessions with Elliott, who took the remarkable images that graced their ground-breaking albums Music From Big Pink and The Band, as well as shots in the studio, at various locations around Woodstock, and at Big Pink - the house where the Basement Tapes sessions were recorded with Dylan.

DYLAN IN WOODSTOCK features the best of of Elliott's shots of The Band, to accompany the photographs of Bob which form the main content of this unique book.

Elliott continued to photograph Bob until they both moved back to New York in 1970. Elliott gave up rock photography in the early Seventies,so these remarkable images represent a unique collaboration between photographer and subject, each at the peak of his powers.

DYLAN IN WOODSTOCK provides an unprecedented selection of unpublished pictures from the archive of Elliott Landy - over 120 photographs in black-and-white, the medium in which his work is best known, but also featuring 40 striking full-colour images and another 20 monochrome images printed in sepia or blue tints.

These classic images of American photographer Elliott Landy are the focus of Genesis Publications' first limited edition about the great Bob Dylan.

£235 plus p&p