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Rowland Scherman

Date of Birth 1937
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Roland Scherman
Profession Photographer
Rowland Scherman is an American photographer. Rowland Scherman was born in NY in 1937. He studied at Oberlin College, and was dark room apprentice at LIFE magazine. He was the first photographer for the newly formed Peace Corps in 1961. His photographs appeared in Life, Look, Time, National Geographic, Paris Match and Playboy, among many others, and he photographed many of the iconic musical, cultural, and political events of the 1960s, including the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, the Beatles first US concert, and Woodstock. He won a Grammy Award in 1968 for his photograph cover of "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits". His published collections include "Love Letters", an alphabet formed by posed dancers, and "Elvis is Everywhere." He lived in Birmingham, Alabama, and documented Alabama's Highway 11. He now lives on Cape Cod. Rowland Scherman describes his day as the official photographer for USIA at the March on Washington, 1963

Awards by Rowland Scherman

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1967


Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Photography
Honored for : Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
(Art Director, Photographer)

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Photography Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits