Photography by Eric Meola
Introduction by Daniel Wolff
Hardcover | 88 pages
12 x 12 inches | 978-1-933784-09-0

Over 100 black-and-white photographs printed in quadratone

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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.

Eric Meola opened his own studio in 1971 and 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.

Daniel Wolff is the co-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.