Like A Rolling Stone Images

The iconic album cover has been studied so thoroughly that whatever theory you may have about its meaning, forget it: someone else already thought of it.

It's hard not to imagine that the blurry photo on the album cover immediately following Highway 61 is a message to fans about Dylan's identity—you'll never understand me, he seems to say.

From the Highway 61 era, this portrait captures the charisma that helped make Dylan into such an icon.