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•Henry Diltz: Rock's 'accidental photographer' wins lifetime achievement prize
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Henry Diltz , 84 , will receive the Icon prize at the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards .
He's responsible for some of the most iconic images of the 1960s and 70s .
The photographer has shot more than 250 album covers and was the official photographer at Woodstock .
He says he considers his career a lucky accident - he never went to photo school.
The Abbey Road Awards take place on Thursday , 21 September 21 September .
Photographer met Linda Eastman in a New York photo lab, getting some films developed, and we got to be friendly over lunch.
" A year later , I got a call from her and she said, ' Henry , we're out in Malibu and we need some pictures for RAM album'.
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