The Grammy Museum’s traveling photo exhibit, “Bob Dylan: Photographs by Daniel Kramer,” will come to Los Angeles from Feb. 29-May 15.

(photo courtesy of Grammy Museum)

The exhibit documents Dylan’s transformation from folk musician to rock ‘n’ roll icon in more than 50 photographs taken by New York-based photographer and film director Daniel Kramer.

In the 1960s, Dylan wrote songs about serious social, political and cultural issues. His music blended elements of American folk music, blues and rock.

“The unique photographs Daniel Kramer captured while working with Bob Dylan during one of the most pivotal moments of his career sheds a never-before-seen light on one of America’s greatest songwriters,” said Bob Santelli, the Grammy Museum’s executive director. “We first opened this exhibit in Dylan’s hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota. Now, we are thrilled to showcase the incredible work of Daniel Kramer at our home in Los Angeles just in time for Dylan’s 75th birthday.”

Kramer is one of America’s most noted music and portrait photographers.

He taught himself photography and worked as an assistant to Philippe Halsman and Allan and Diane Arbus before earning an international reputation of his own. His 1967 book, “Bob Dylan,” was critically acclaimed.

“Very often a photographer is a historian with a camera,” Kramer said. “So, if I was successful, then, yes, there are a lot of pictures. But, that’s not the only thing you come away with. What you come away with is information, and something about Bob Dylan and something about the time. You can see the change in the music, from the one microphone and acoustical guitar in a simple setting to a vast stadium, hundreds of feet of cable, huge speakers that are bigger than a person. So I think all of that, if you get that out of it, then the pictures did their job.”

The exhibit will be on display in the Museum’s Special Exhibits Gallery. The Grammy Museum is located at 800 W. Olympic Blvd. For information, visit grammymuseum.org.