“I’M not really a photographer,” Henry Diltz tells Uncut. “I just hang out with my friends and take pictures!”
As modest statements go, this is up there with the best of them. Diltz’s friends include ’60s and ’70s rock royalty, while his photographs have graced more than 250 album covers, from James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James to The Doors’ Morrison Hotel. He shot Hendrix at Woodstock, Paul and Linda McCartney for the cover of LIFE magazine and Joni Mitchell at home. But for Diltz, it is his relationship with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young that runs the deepest – and is the focus of a new photographic book, CSN&Y: Love The One You’re With.
“I first picked up a camera in 1966,” says Henry Diltz. “That year, I photographed Buffalo Springfield, I photographedGraham Nash and The Hollies and I photographed David Crosby at a Renaissance Fair. I ran the numbers and I’ve been photographing those guys for two-thirds of my life!”
