Brad Elterman is a famous photographer from California who started his career when he was 16 with his photo of Bob Dylan from a 1974 concert.
The artist spoke with Vice and said that he wasn’t “a traditional rock ‘n’ roll photographer because [he] didn’t give a s**t about taking a photograph of someone holding a guitar”.
“That’s what all the other photographers at the time were doing,” he continued, “and I wasn’t interested in those generic concert pictures. I photographed backstage—those were the really exciting pictures that told a story; those were the images that the magazines were craving.”
40 years later, Elterman is still popular for his unique style. See some of his best photos below.