When a 19-year-old Bob Dylan left Minnesota for New York in January of 1961, it was an innocent trip east to visit his ailing hero, folk legend Woody Guthrie, who was in a New Jersey hospital. After visiting Guthrie, Dylan settled in New York’s Greenwich Village, where he performed frequently in small folk clubs and caught the eye of New York Times critic Robert Shelton and, in turn, Columbia Records’ John Hammond.

Signing a deal with Columbia opened the door for Dylan to change the face of popular music with his protest songs (a label forced upon his songs that he still vehemently rejects), such as “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Masters of War” and “Oxford Town.” It also began his collaboration with legendary photographer Don Hunstein.

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Nude photographs of Kate Moss will be sold at an auction next month among a series of other pictures of the British model, Christie’s auctioneers said.

The photos will be auctioned in London on May 31.

Two nude portraits, a 1996 print by Irving Penn and a two-metre square image by Albert Watson, are expected to sell for about £22,000 ($52,500) and £15,000 respectively, the auctioneer said.
A set of six prints of the model without make-up, by Chuck Close, could sell for up to £20,000, Christie’s said.
An unpublished photograph, being sold by one of Moss’s friends, is expected to sell for £6000.

The portrait, taken by photographer Corinne Day in 1990, was shot in London two years after Moss was discovered at a New York airport at age 14.

Another shot taken by Day in 1993 for Vogue magazine, which features a 19-year-old Moss, is expected to sell for £7000.
The Vogue shoot helped propel the grunge movement into the mainstream and launch the infamous “heroin chic” look in the 1990s.
Yuka Yamaji, head of photography for the auction house, called Moss “a cultural icon and arguably the most influential model of our day”.