Friday March 13, 1964, New York, New York, USA

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan in his Greenwich Village apartment.

Credit: Ted Russell / Polaris

Friday March 13, 1964, New York, New York, USA

Bob Dylan in his Greenwich Village apartment

Bob Dylan in his Greenwich Village apartment in March 1964, a month after the release of "The Times They Are A-Changin'."

Credit: Ted Russell / Polaris

January 1962, New York City, USA

Photo Archive Of Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan in his Greenwich village apartment in New York city.

Credit: Ted Russell / Polaris

1963, New York, New York, USA

The Young Bob Dylan in New York City

Bob Dylan walks the sidewalks of Greenwich Village, guitar case in hand.

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January 1954, Seoul, South Korea

Marilyn Monroe Visits US Troops In South Korea

Marilyn Monroe arrives at Youngsan Army Base, Seoul, South Korea to entertain U.S. Troops.

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1960, New York City, New York, United States

President John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy campaigns for the presidency in New York.

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1960, New York City, New York, United States

President John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy campaigns for the presidency in New York.

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Monday November 25, 1963, Wasnhington, District of Columbia, USA

Funeral for John F. Kennedy

Funeral procession for President John F. Kennedy.

Family and friends walking: Robert Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy and Ted Kennedy

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1958, Washington, DC, USA

Robert F. Kennedy attends Senate Labor Rackets Committee hearings

Robert F. Kennedy, acting as chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee hearings of 1958.

Robert F. Kennedy

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September 1964, New York, USA

Robert F. Kennedy Campaigning In New York.

Robert F. Kennedy campaigning for the US Senate in Upstate New York.

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September 1964, New York, USA

Robert F. Kennedy Campaigning In New York.

Robert F. Kennedy campaigning for the US Senate in upstate New York.

Credit: Ted Russell / Polaris

September 1964, New York, USA

Robert F. Kennedy Campaigning In New York.

Robert F. Kennedy campaigning for the US Senate in upstate New York.

Credit: Ted Russell / Polaris

Sunday June 30, 1963, New York, New York, USA

Malcolm X speaking at a Muslim rally in Harlem

Malcolm X speaking at a Black Muslim rally in Harlem.

Credit: Ted Russell / Polaris

Sunday June 30, 1963, New York, New York, USA

Malcolm X speaking at a Muslim rally in Harlem

Malcolm X speaking at a Black Muslim rally in Harlem.

Credit: Ted Russell / Polaris

Sunday June 30, 1963, New York, New York, USA

Malcolm X speaking at a Muslim rally in Harlem

Crowd racts to Malcolm X speaking at a Muslim rally in Harlem

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September 1961, Cornish, New Hampshire, USA

American author J.D. Salinger

Famously reclusive author J.D. Salinger emerges briefly from behind the wooden fence surrounding his home. Salinger, author of the classic "Catcher in the Rye", has very rarely been photographed or interviewed.

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1967, New York, New York, USA

Train Station Farewell

A sailor bids farewell to his girl at Pennsylvania Station.

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1961, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA

John Coltrane recording "Africa / Brass"

Legendary saxophone player John Coltrane (1926-1967). Coltrane is among jazz's most important figures. He played in several bands, the Joe Webb Band, the King Kolax Band, Jimmy Heath's band, and eventually Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra. He finally got a break with Miles Davis, which established him as an important player. In 1957, Coltrane joined the Thelonius Monk quartet and developed a technique of playing several notes at once; he continued to play on and off with Davis. He formally launched his solo career in 1960, and his playing became increasingly experimental. He recorded extensively before his death in 1967 of liver cancer.

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1963, New York, New York, USA

American Chess Champion Bobby Fischer

Chess Champion Robert J. Fischer (Bobby Fischer) became the first American world champion when he defeated Boris Spassky in 1972. He refused to defend his title and was stripped of it. He eventually isolated himself from chess competition until he held a match in Bosnia against Spassky in 1992 in defiance of US sanctions against Belgrade over the Balkan wars. He faces up to 10 years in prison in the United States. Fischer, 61, has been detained by the Japanese immigration office since July 2004, when he tried to fly out of Japan on his revoked US passport. As of January 2005 his case remains unresolved. Fischer playing Samuel Reshevsky at the Henry Hudson hotel in New York City.

Bobby Fischer playing chess

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1962, London, England

St. James' Palace

Changing of the guard at St. James' Palace.

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October 1956, New York, New York, USA

Andrea Doria Ship Disaster.

Relatives of survivors react emotionally as they spot their loved ones on a New York pier following the sinking of the Andrea Doria. The ship went down after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm in dense fog off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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October 1956, New York,, New York, USA

Andrea Doria Survivor

Survivor of Andrea Doria shipwreck disaster re-unites with a relative on a New York pier. The Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish passenger liner Stockholm in the fog off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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USA

Versatile vocalist Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and became known as one of the most versatile and gifted vocalists in American popular music history, Dinah Washington made extraordinary recordings in jazz, blues, R&B and light pop contexts. Washington's penetrating, high-pitched voice, incredible sense of drama and timing, crystal clear enunciation and equal facility with sad, bawdy, celebratory or rousing material enabled her to sing any and everything with distinction. Some of her biggest R&B hits were written by Leonard Feather, the distinguished critic who was a successful composer in the '40s. Washington dominated the R&B charts in the late '40s and '50s, but also did straight jazz sessions for EmArcy and Mercury, with horn accompanists including Clifford Brown, Clark Terry and Maynard Ferguson, and pianists Wynton Kelly, a young Joe Zawinul and Andrew Hill. She wanted to record what she liked, irregardless of whether it was considered suitable, and in today's market would be a crossover superstar.

Credit: Ted Russell / Polaris

USA

Versatile vocalist Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and became known as one of the most versatile and gifted vocalists in American popular music history, Dinah Washington made extraordinary recordings in jazz, blues, R&B and light pop contexts. Washington's penetrating, high-pitched voice, incredible sense of drama and timing, crystal clear enunciation and equal facility with sad, bawdy, celebratory or rousing material enabled her to sing any and everything with distinction. Some of her biggest R&B hits were written by Leonard Feather, the distinguished critic who was a successful composer in the '40s. Washington dominated the R&B charts in the late '40s and '50s, but also did straight jazz sessions for EmArcy and Mercury, with horn accompanists including Clifford Brown, Clark Terry and Maynard Ferguson, and pianists Wynton Kelly, a young Joe Zawinul and Andrew Hill. She wanted to record what she liked, irregardless of whether it was considered suitable, and in today's market would be a crossover superstar.

Credit: Ted Russell / Polaris

USA

Count Basie

Count Basie was a leading figure of the swing era in jazz and, alongside Duke Ellington, an outstanding representative of big band style. After studying piano with his mother, as a young man he went to New York, where he met James P. Johnson, Fats Waller (with whom he studied informally), another pianist of the Harlem stride school. Before he was 20 years old, he toured extensively on the Keith and TOBA vaudeville circuits as a solo pianist, accompanist, and music director for blues singers, dancers, and comedians. This provided an early training that was to prove significant in his later career. Stranded in Kansas City in 1927 while accompanying a touring group, he remained there, playing in silent-film theaters. In July 1928, he joined Walter Page's Blue Devils which, in addition to Page, included Jimmy Rushing; both later figured prominently in Basie's own band. Basie left the Blue Devils early in 1929 to play with two lesser-known bands in the area. Later that year, he joined Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, as did the other key members of the Blue Devils shortly after.

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1956, New York, New York, United States

Jayne Mansfield.

Late movie actress Jayne Mansfield at a New York night club during the Summer of 1956.

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1958, New York, New York, USA

Former President Harry S. Truman.

Former President Harry S. Truman leaving the Carlyle Hotel for his morning constitutional

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1961, New York, New York, USA

Winston Churchill in New York

Winston Churchill on Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina.

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1967, New York, New York, USA

Harry Belafonte and Richard Pryor host 1967 NBC Comedy Extraveganza

Comedian Richard Pryor and singer Harry Belafonte attend rehearsal for a 1967 NBC Comedy Extravaganza.

Richard Pryor sits atop a casket.

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Ted Russell

Ted Russell, a former photographer for LIFE, was born in London. The son of an American foreign correspondent and his French war bride, Russell began photographing at age 10, and by age 15, was apprenticing in news photography in London's Fleet Street. The following year he worked as a stringer photographer for Acme Newspictures in Brussels. He later joined the staff of NOW, an English language picture magazine, published by former Stars & Stripes staffers in Frankfurt Germany, for Americans in Europe. When NOW folded he shot covers for the U.S. Army's SPOTLIGHT magazine in Nuremberg, then freelanced briefly in Paris before boarding the Queen Mary for New York, arriving with four cameras and $200. He was soon drafted and served as unit photographer with the Army's 2nd Engineers in the Korean war. After attending the University of California at Berkeley, he returned to New York and became a regular contributing photographer for LIFE magazine for over l2 years, shooting hundreds of domestic and overseas assignments for LIFE magazine and Time Life books. After LIFE weekly suspended publication, he did numerous advertising, corporate and annual report assignments before turning his hand to photo editing, ending up as cover photo editor of NEWSWEEK magazine for 11 years. His covers have appeared on LIFE, NEWSWEEK,TIME, SATURDAY REVIEW, UNCUT magazine, and many books, record and CD albums. Russell has won awards in the NPPA/ University of Missouri School of Journalism Pictures of the Year Competition, from the AIGA and Art Direction Magazine, and his photos have been exhibited at the International Center of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art.