John Cohen

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John Cohen (born Queens, New York, 1932) is a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers as well as a photographer and filmmaker of note. Some of his best known images document the Abstract Expressionist scene centered around New York's Cedar Bar; Beat Generation writers during the filming of Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's Pull My Daisy; and the "old time" musicians of Appalachia. (The title of Cohen's 1962 film, High Lonesome Sound, has become synonymous with that music.) His field recording of a Peruvian wedding song is included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft.

He currently resides in the lower Hudson Valley of New York.

[edit] Monograph

[edit] Selected Filmography

  • The High Lonesome Sound (1962)
  • Fifty Miles from Times Square (1970)
  • Peruvian Weaving: a continuous warp (1980)
  • Sara and Maybelle (1981)
  • Gypsies Sing Long Ballads (1982)
  • Mountain Music of Peru (1984)
  • Dancing with the Incas (1990)
  • Carnival in Q'eros (1992)

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