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.

Hunstein, who was Columbia’s unofficial staff photographer from 1958 to 1981, has had his photographs placed on the covers of more than 200 albums. His covers include both Dylan’s eponymous debut album and the iconic shot of Dylan and then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo walking arm-in-arm down Jones Street in Greenwich Village that became the cover of 1963’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.

And now, a set of six original photo prints, including shots taken at the same time as the covers for both albums, are being auctioned off. All of the photos are signed by Hunstein and are up for bid at Icon-Collectibles.com. The auction ends April 22 at 9 p.m. and the price started at $600 (as of April 19 at 1 p.m., it was up to $1,651). Don’t have that kind of money? Don’t think twice, it’s all right. When ya ain’t got nothin’, ya got nothin’ to lose.

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With the most recent gift, the museum now has one of every print that was featured in the 1996-1997 exhibit Herb Ritts: Work, the first full-scale retrospective of Ritts’s work — and one of the 10 most-attended exhibits in the museum’s history. The collection featured Ritts’s photos of Africa and the African people, fashion layouts, studies of the human form, and portraits of Dustin Hoffman, Nelson Mandela, William Burroughs and Madonna, among others.

With the addition of Ritts’s photos, the MFA collection now comprises more than 5,000 works from as far back as the 1840s. The collection started in 1924, when Alfred Stieglitz donated 27 of his photographs to the museum. In 1950, Georgia O’Keefe, Stieglitz’s widow, donated many more. The collection now includes the works of Ansel Adams, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Josef Sudek and Yousuf Karsh. The museum has nearly 200 of Karsh’s photos, including black-and-white portraits of Winston Churchill, Audrey Hepburn and Ernest Hemingway.

“We are honored to name a photography gallery in honor of Herb Ritts,” said Malcolm Rogers, director of the museum, which opened its doors in 1876. “His unforgettable images evoke a world without boundaries of age, race, class or sexuality, and they reflect the values of a new generation.”

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Carolyn Cole’s shelves are getting cluttered. With a Pulitzer Prize, a Robert Capa Gold Medal, more Pictures of the Year International awards than you can shake a stick at and three National Press Photographers Association Photojournalist of the Year awards, she has to be running out of room to store her awards.

Cole, a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times , was named NPPA Photojournalist of the Year last week for the third time in the past five years. Her portfolio from this year includes striking photos of everything from the Israel-Hezbollah conflict to riots during the Haitian presidential election to New Orleans’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina to the genocide in Darfur.

Cole was born in Boulder, Colo., in 1961 and graduated from the University of Texas in 1983. She began her career as a staff photographer at the El Paso Herald Post in 1986; two years later she moved to San Francisco to take a position at the Examiner, where she stayed for another two years. In 1990, she moved to Mexico City and worked as a freelance photographer for the Los Angeles Times, the Detroit Free Press and Business Week before returning to the United States in 1992. After a stint at the Sacramento Bee, Cole joined the staff of the Los Angeles Times , where she remains today.

Her photographs of bank robber Emil Matasareanu, who was killed in a nationally televised shootout with police in North Hollywood, Calif., helped the Times win a Pulitzer for its coverage of the event and were used as evidence in a wrongful-death suit filed by Matasareanu’s family. The photographs from her two-month stay in Afghanistan in 2001 earned Cole her first NPPA Photojournalist of the Year award — and started her run though every major photojournalism award.

In 2002, Cole was in the West Bank to cover Israel’s incursion into Bethlehem. She holed up in the Church of the Nativity with a group of Palestinian militants and peace activists, enduring the infamous siege of the church. The photos she took from inside the church earned her a Pulitzer nomination in 2003. The following year she headed to Liberia to cover the country’s civil war and the rebel insurgency into the capital city of Monrovia. For her photos of the effects of civil war on the citizens of Liberia, Cole was awarded not only the Pulitzer Prize, but was also named the NPPA Photojournalist of the Year (for the second time) and the Pictures of the Year International Photographer of the Year — the first person to win all three major awards in the same year.

Other winners in the 2007 NPPA competition include Brian Hill of the Daily Herald (Best of Show, single photo); Mary Calvert of the Washington Times (Photojournalist of the Year, small market); Joe Amon of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Best Published Picture Story, large market); Preston Gannaway of the Concord Monitor (Best Published Picture Story, small market); Oded Balilty, of The Associated Press (Geberal News); and Donald Miralle Jr. of Getty Images (Sports Photojournalist of the Year). For a complete list of winners, go to the NPPA Web site.

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Center, previously known as the Santa Fe Center for Photography, has announced the winners of its 11th annual Singular Image Awards. Submissions to the Singular contest are judged in two categories: color and black and white.

Brooks Jensen, the editor or Lenswork, chose Jimmy Williams, the winner in the black and white category, from a pool of nearly 1,200 images. Williams, who hails from Raleigh, N.C., won first prize — a weeklong workshop at the Santa Fe Workshops — for his photograph titled James, a shot of an elderly man singing into an antique microphone. Second place in the black and white category went to Heather Jacks of Thurmont, Md., for her photograph The Cello; third place went to Roberto Guerra of Jamaica Plain, Mass., for Istanbul, Turkey #3; and Eric Wiswell of Santa Fe, N.M., Adam Gooder of Cambridge, Mass., and Cole Thompson of Laporte, Colo., all received honorable mention.

Our own Miriam Leuchter, managing editor of Popular Photography and Imaging, judged the color category. She selected from more than 1,800 entries Krista Steinke‘s The Apples Grew Ripe and Fell Far From the Tree, a depiction of a child smashing apples on the front porch of a house. “It’s no easy task to judge the Singular Image competition — to choose one outstanding photograph from a field of thousands,” Leuchter says. “They all seem to tell a story, subtle and complicated. And they’re all singularly unforgettable.”

Steinke, who is from Bethlehem, Pa., will take home a $1,000 gift certificate to Singer Editions, a fine-art printing service. Caitlin Atkinson of San Francisco placed second with her photo Chapter 17; third place went to Shen Wei of New York for Gary, Llano, Texas; and Laura J. Bennett of Pearland, Texas, Julian Humphries of Austin, Texas, and Jason Horowitz of Arlington, Va., received honorable mention.

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