Original portrait photograph of Mississippi John Hurt, 1965

Forest Hills, NY: Photo-Graphics, Circa 1965. Vintage satin finish portrait photograph of influential country blues musician Mississippi John Hurt, 1965. Stamp of photographer Bernard Gotfryd on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript pencil relating to same.

Although Hurt's initial recordings with Okeh Records in the 1920s were commercial failures, driving Hurt back into sharecropping, he experienced a brief period of renewed interest in the early 1960s, after his rediscovery by musicologist Dick Spottswood. He would travel and perform extensively, recording for the Library of Congress in 1964, and recording four albums in as many years, but would pass away in 1966 of a heart attack. Material recorded by Hurt has been covered by numerous artists, including Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, Beck, Dave Van Ronk, Taj Mahal, Jerry Garcia, and many others.

Polish-American photographer Bernard Gotfryd worked as a staff photojournalist for "Newsweek," operating out of New York, for over three decades. His photographs serve as a document of American popular culture, politics, and art in the 1960s and 1970s, and his work is today held in the Library of Congress, Brooklyn Public Library, and the New York Historical Society.

From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.

6.5 x 9.5 inches, archivally matted in a 11 x 14 inch 8-ply white mat. About Near Fine, with a small crease at the top left corner.

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