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Ira Cohen: Psychedelic Photography Master

Posted: 22 May 2011 01:19 AM PDT

Photographer and poet Ira Cohen spent the early 1960s in Tangier, Morocco, where he lived and worked with William S. Burroughs and Paul Bowles. He is renowned for his Mylar Chamber images, in which he photographed Jimi Hendrix and others in his New York loft apartment. Cohen died last month at the age of 76. Here we take a look at his life’s work.

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