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But it was meeting Bob Dylan, as he emerged from the folk cellars of Greenwich Village into the wider music world in the Sixties, which changed both men's lives.

Schatzberg's mesmerising portraits of Dylan dominate the show. The classic cover image for Blonde on Blonde helped establish the Dylan enigma, its soft-focus style breaking all the established rules of the time.

In the studio (1965), the shy, skinny, young man in a drain-pipe-trousered suit plays awkwardly with props (Burning Keys, Pliers) and in close-up (Smoke) covers his eyes with a hand, a triangle of light drawing our eyes to the cigarette and sensuous mouth.

Pictures of Dylan are mixed in with posed and informal portraits of The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and other influential rockers: Mama Cass lying classically naked on a bed of daisies, the zany Frank Zappa, hair in bunches, portrayed conventionally.

Schatzberg's perceptive portraits took time; in Faye Dunaway's case, achieved by dating her. Legs (1968) - his uncharacteristic study of light and shadow - highlights her face and legs.

The deadpan Stones-in-drag group shot - Brian Jones as RAF slut, Mick Jagger as dowdy housewife - is accompanied by revealing tiny prints labelled Loft Drag, taken during make-up.

Schatzberg's career in fashion is recorded in the amusing portrait of David Bailey and Terence Donovan on his snow-covered roof terrace, Bailey in the buff and Donovan in a suit.

References abound - the large timepiece, Cha Cha Cha (1958), is 16 shots of a dancing woman suspended in white space in the style of Richard Avedon; by contrast, Homage of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1964) sees Peggy Moffatt walking a chicken on a lead.

By the Seventies, pop's allure faded and Schatzberg turned to film-making; his gritty docudramas include Puzzle of a Downfall Child featuring Faye Dunaway.

Now, the iconic seventysomething shows us his quietly dazzling contribution to rock history.

Until 31 August (020 7224 4192, www.atlasgallery.com).

Thin Wild Mercury: Bob Dylan By Jerry Schatzberg
Atlas
Dorset Street, W1U 7NF