Keeping Time is an elegant throwback to an era when photographers had permission to shoot their famous subjects instead of stalking them outside Starbucks. Don Hunstein was a staff photographer for Columbia Records for three decades, starting in the 1950s, and his assignments led to photographing some of the most illustrious names in music history--including Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin.
Hunstein's black-and-white photos are relaxed, more candid than formal. Art Garfunkel, in his foreword, describes Hunstein's talent for putting his subjects at ease, and the pictures back up that claim. (A young Dylan actually smiles for the camera!) Hunstein's approach resembled that of a journalist more than a portraitist, capturing the artists in their element while staying out of their way. Keeping Time gives one a feeling of being a fly on the wall, watching legendary musicians in a variety of places and situations. --Elyse Dinh-McCrillis, writer/editor blogging at Pop Culture Nerd