“I saw the small old woman coming towards us down the sidewalk. I was intrigued and wanted to catch her passing Neil. The mistake to me was that I had in my haste focused the lens just past the two figures closer to the fence than to Neil’s face.That was the original reason why I made a small sized print and solarized it to help with the apparent sharpness.. But the solarization in this case added a somewhat spooky dimension to the image, which Neil took to immediately”
~ Joel Bernstein“When you’re young, you don’t have any experience-you are charged up but you’re out of control. And if you’re old and you’re not charged up, then all you have are memories. But if you’re charged and stimulated by what’s going on around you and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by”
~ Neil Young
“After The Gold Rush” is one of my all time favourite albums. Songs such as “Southern Man” and "Only Love Can Break your Heart” still resonate over 50 years later. Joel was only 18 years old when he got to work with Neil Young. It was an outdoor photo session in Greenwich Village and magic happened on the corner of Sullivan and West 3rd Street, an area many of us know well. Not only a classic New York image but one of the great classic rock album covers. Enjoy!
