Joel Bernstein is a photographer, guitarist, and record producer based in Oakland, California.

His photographs have appeared as the album covers for After the Gold Rush,[1] 4 Way Street, Rita Coolidge, Wind on the Water, Running on Empty, CSN, Bob Dylan at Budokan, Rust Never Sleeps, Shadows and Light, Hard Promises and many others.

His photographs have been published in Time, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, among other publications,[2][3] and there have been retrospective exhibits of his work in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.

[4][5] As a guitarist, he is most noted for support work to his friends David Crosby and Graham Nash, both individually and on their Crosby & Nash records.

[6] In 2018 Joel Bernstein was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.