Bob Dylan: The Photos

America likes to think of itself as a land or reinvention, Esquire’s Charles P. Pierce writes. Bob Dylan, he adds, has been calling America’s bluff on that ever since he showed up in Greenwich Village. On May 24, 2021, Dylan turns 80 years old. He’s been making music for nearly 60 of those years, and shifting shapes throughout the decades, both in the music he plays and in the ways he presents himself, as these 80 photos reveal.