Bob Dylan with Mic, Newport, 1963

At the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, a young Bob Dylan stepped up to the microphone during the weekend that would mark his breakthrough as a defining voice of the American folk movement. Rowland Scherman was there to document it.

This black-and-white photograph captures Dylan mid-performance—guitar in hand, leaning into the microphone—in the moment that helped turn a rising songwriter into a generational figure.

This work is produced from Rowland Scherman’s original negative and offered as a limited-edition archival pigment print in three sizes:

• 11 × 16 inches (28 × 41 cm)
• 18 × 26 inches (46 × 66 cm)
• 30 × 40 inches (76 × 102 cm)

Each print is signed and numbered by Rowland Scherman.