Elliott Landy's Classic Band Photos

Elliott Landy at the Woodstock festival '69. Photo © Amalie Rothschild. Elliott Landy, 1998

Elliott Landy was the Band's official photographer in the '60s and early '70s. His classic cover photos for the Band's first two albums, Music from Big Pink and The Band, wonderfully captures the feeling of community, mysticism, and roots that were present in the music and the stories told by the Band. He worked with the Band again in the '90s, taking the group photos for their 1993 album Jericho.

Elliott Landy also photographed major rock artists like Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Van Morrison and many more. Photo books and fine art prints of Elliott's artwork can be ordered from elliottlandy.com.

All the photos below are copyrighted. You are not allowed to use or redistribute any of these photos without permission from Elliott Landy.
 

• The Band photo gallery with thumbnails

• The Band in the Catskills

• Logo for the old version of the Band web site

• "Next of Kin" photo

• "Next of Kin" outtake

• From the "Next of Kin" photo session

• The Band in the basement of Rick Danko's House, 1969

• B/w photos from the book Dylan in Woodstock.

• Rick Danko and Hamlet, 1969

• Robbie and Dominique, Fillmore East, 1969

• The Band in the kitchen of Big Pink

• The Band outside Big Pink, 1968

• Cover shot for the brown album

• Posing in the woods

• A surprise at a photo session for Music from Big Pink

• Rolling Stone front cover, August 24, 1968

• Rolling Stone portraits of The Band

• Levon

• The Band, sitting

• Gathered around Levon

• Rick Danko, 1968, infrared portrait

• The Band, Woodstock, spring 1968

• Photos from the original LP cover of The Band, 1969

• The Band - 1969

• From the photo sessions for The Band

• With John Simon in the studio

• In Woodstock, 1969

• From an outdoors photo session with instruments

• Infrared portrait of Robbie, 1969

• Infrared portrait of Richard Manuel, 1969

• Playing outdoors

• Richard Manuel with camera, 1969

• Another shot of the Band playing outdoors

• At the Woodstock Festival, 17 Aug, 1969

• The Band with Danko's old Hudson, 1969, b/w photo

• Color shot, same setting as the previous photo

• The Band lined up, late 60's

• Levon Helm playing mandolin, 1970

• Robbie at the Woodstock Festival

• Richard Manuel on his birthday, 1970