Paul Ferrara is an American photographer known for his relation with singer Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...

 of the band The Doors

The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...

 . He started as The Doors still photographer and his first production was a souvenir book that was sold at concerts. Many of the iconic images of Morrison’s persona were created by Ferrara. Ferrara also took the cover photograph of the Doors album Waiting for the Sun

Waiting for the Sun

Waiting for the Sun is the third studio album by the American rock band The Doors. It was released in 1968 and became the band's first and only number one album and spawned their second US number one single, "Hello, I Love You". It also became the band's first hit album in the UK, where it peaked...

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He directed Jim Morrison's 1969 film HWY: An American Pastoral

HWY: An American Pastoral

HWY: An American Pastoral is a film by Jim Morrison and Paul Ferrara and stars Morrison as a hitchhiker. It is a 50-minute experimental film in Direct Cinema style...

. Hitherto unreleased behind the scenes movies of The Doors shot by Ferrara in the late 1960s/early 1970s were included in the 2009 documentary on the The Doors, When You're Strange

When You're Strange

When You're Strange is a 2009 documentary about the life of The Doors. It is written and directed by Tom DiCillo and for the first time makes material from Jim Morrison's 1969 film fragment HWY: An American Pastoral publicly available....

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Ferrera was in the inner circle of The Doors
and self-published his memoirs from this period in 2007.