Thirty years ago, Eric Meola photographed Bruce Springsteen for the photo shoot that resulted in the iconic album cover of Born to Run. Now, alongside the lyrics of that entire album, Meola shares previously unpublished photographs from that historic session with The Boss.

Bruce Springsteen is one of the most important songwriters and performers of the last three decades. Born To Run is the album that put Bruce Springsteen on the cover of both Newsweek and Time. It is a timeless snap-shot of Americana -- all sweaty, high energy, and tuned to a carnival-like level. With the release in 1975 of Born To Run, music critics proclaimed that the songwriter's baton had been passed from Dylan to Springsteen. For many critics of the day, Born To Run made Springsteen the most important artist of his generation. It was on this album that Springsteen's songs first portrayed a glorious yet very real side of the American Dream.

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A self-taught photographer, Eric Meola opened his own studio in 1971; by 1975 he was working on the album cover of Born To Run and also began his career shooting major advertising campaigns. In 1983, he joined The Image Bank stock photo agency. Meola's photographs are included in the archive of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., the International Center of Photography in New York City, and the George Eastman House.

This special Limited Edition of only 1350 copies is almost sold out! Includes a signed, limited photographic print, enclosed in an album cover reproduction of the rare "scripted" cover used by Columbia Records as the preview version of Born to Run.

Daniel Wolff is the author of the award-winning biography You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke and Memphis Blues Again. His work has appeared in Vogue, The Nation, and Doubletake.

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Born To Run: The Unseen Photos
Trade edition, 88 pages, 12" x 12"
ISBN-10: 1-933784-09-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-933784-09-0