Friday night. Went to the preview of the Official Bob Dylan Photographs Exhibition at Nunnington Hall, an old pile that is now a National Trust property only about five miles from my own rather smaller old pile. Nunnington Hall is the first place outside London to mount this exhibition, which has an extremely generous array of limited-edition photographs, mostly black 'n' white and mostly 1960s, of Bob in all his glory. One of the things that strikes you is the range of pictures by Don Hunstein. He's mostly known for that LP cover picture of Bob and Suze Rotolo walking down snowy Cornelia Street (Hunstein's own pinpointing there), but he took photos of Dylan all the way through from 62 to 65. You don't think of him as capturing the thin-as-thin besuited hipster Bob of electric 1965, but he did. (Hunstein, as the Encyclopedia notes, was born in late 1928, so he's now 77 and, in his own words, "somewhat more than semi-retired".)

The Exhbition itself opens at Nunnington Hall tomorrow (Tuesday June 6) and runs till July 9. An author signing for The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia will be held there on the afternoon of Wednesday June 28. If you're not en route to Bournemouth to see Bob, you could always drop in on the Exhibition and say hello.