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1. 1. Art Museum Network News

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   Published on: 10/17/2004   Last Visited: 10/22/2004

   there is no eye: Photographs by John CohenArt Museum Network News
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   there is no eye: Photographs by John Cohen Sunday, October 17, 2004 , Sunday, January 2, 2005
   
   Neuberger Museum of Art
   
   John Cohen, Bob Dylan at my loft, Third Avenue, New York City, 1962, Gelatin silver print, courtesy of the artist and Deborah Bell Photographs, New York City
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   PURCHASE, NY, (amnnews.com) , "there is no eye: Photographs by John Cohen" features a collection of more than 130 modern black and white photographs that reflect photographer/filmmaker/musician John Cohen,s passion for art and music.The exhibition will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art from October 17, 2004 through January 2, 2005.The works in the exhibition are grouped into eight themes, Keeping Time, Gospel Truths, Shape of Survival, Artworks, Beat Generation, To Revive Us Again, The High Lonesome Sound, and Up and Out. there is no eye covers all areas of Cohen,s work: New York City of the 1950s; the Beat Generation; American traditional music; his travels through Peru and the American South.Cohen,s sensitive and moving portraits provide a virtual lesson in 1960s cultural history and includes images of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Franz Kline, Red Grooms, Philip Guston, Woodie Guthrie, Doc Watson, and a very young Bob Dylan.
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   Although most widely recognized for his music and his work with musicians, John Cohen began his career as a visual artist.During the early 1950s, he studied painting with Josef Albers and photography with Herbert Matter at Yale University.He moved to New York in 1957, where the Abstract Expressionist artists still held sway, Pop Art was emerging with the work of Red Grooms and Claes Oldenberg, the Beat poets were reading in local coffee houses, and the urban folk-music scene was springing to life.Cohen set about chronicling the bohemian New York art and music scenes of the late ,50s and early ,60s and his loft became a crossroads for musicians and artists.
   
   Throughout the ,50s and early ,60s, Cohen toured extensively with the New Lost City Ramblers, a folk music string band he co-founded.As a regular writer for Sing Out Magazine, Cohen was central to the emergence of the urban folk revival of the 1960s.
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   Also during the late 1950s, Cohen took the first of many trips to Peru, where he photographed Indian weavers at work and developed a deep appreciation for Andean music.
   
   John Cohen was a professor of photography for many years at Purchase College, State University of New York.
   
   On Sunday, October 24 at 2:00 p.m. in the Neuberger Museum, John Cohen will introduce the first film he made, The High Lonesome Sound, which runs for 30 minutes.
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   After the film, Cohen will conduct a gallery talk through the exhibition.The event is free with Museum admission.
   
   The Neuberger Museum of Art, located on the Westchester County campus of Purchase College, State University of New York, engages and inspires diverse audiences by actively fostering the study, appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of modern art, African art, and the art of our time.For information, call (914) 251-6100, or visit log on to www.neuberger.org
   
   "there is no eye: Photographs by John Cohen" is organized and circulated by The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University in cooperation with John P. Jacob, an independent curator.

2. 2. www.pastemagazine.com

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   Published on: 4/22/2008   Last Visited: 7/18/2008

   Burnett found his man: John Cohen, a onetime member of the New Lost City Ramblers who has devoted his life to the exploration of American traditional forms."John is an extraordinary person who's been diggin' around in the music and doing field recordings for half-a-century," Burnett explains.

3. 3. The Celestial Monochord:

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   Published on: 4/1/2006   Last Visited: 4/7/2008

   John Cohen and the Voyager Record
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   The New Lost City Ramblers: John Cohen, Mike Seeger, Tracy Schwarz
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   And this record contains a field recording made in Peru by John Cohen, co-founder of the New Lost City Ramblers.
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   The intensely humanistic Alan Lomax served as an advisor to the Voyager project â€" it was Lomax who recommended to Sagan's group the inclusion of John Cohen's 1964 recording of a young Peruvian woman's wedding song.
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   Besides having co-founded The New Lost City Ramblers in 1958, and having made many recordings and award-winning documentaries about Andean culture, Cohen is also famous as the guy who coined the phrase "high lonesome sound."
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   John Cohen ... contributed to the interest in bluegrass with his photography and through a short documentary film whose title has become closely associated with the music.In February 1963, when Cohen chose The High Lonesome Sound for his movie about Kentucky mountain music, he was seeking words to describe the high, intense quality of the singing which had impressed him during his research in the region ...
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   This John Cohen is also the same John Cohen who Bob Dylan addresses in his liner notes to Highway 61 Revisited.
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   In them, Dylan refers to Cohen's rooftop where Cohen had taken perhaps the first photos of Dylan in New York.
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   This is also the same John Cohen who provided what was, for many years, the only available interview with Harry Smith, eccentric editor of the influential Anthology of American Folk Music.
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   And finally, it appears that the Grateful Dead song "Uncle John's Band" is about John Cohen and The New Lost City Ramblers.