The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography - Hardcover

Tanner, Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810957493 ISBN 13: 9780810957497

Publisher: Abrams, 2006

Synopsis

The great improvisational American jazz musicians of the mid-20th century inspired a generation of photographers to develop a looser, moodier style of visual expression. That evocative approach is on striking display in The Jazz Image. Covering six decades of performers ―from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to John Coltrane and Miles Davis―this unique collection is as much a comprehensive catalogue of jazz greats as it is a salute to the photographers who captured them.Lee Tanner, a leading authority on jazz photography, has selected works―by such noted jazz photographers as Herman Leonard, Bob Willoughby, Milt Hinton, and Bill Claxton―that are iconic, candid, explosive, and intimate. They provide a simultaneous look at jazz, photography, and America from 1935 into the 1990s.

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Review:

150 passionately evocative duotone images by the world's best jazz
photographers.
-- Metro, December 20, 2006

Synopsis:

"The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography" has been carefully culled by Lee Tanner, the leading authority on jazz photography and photographers, and covers more than four decades of performers. If music is an international language, then jazz is the unofficial American ambassador to the world. These incredible images are both historical documents and cultural artifacts, as they are simultaneously records of a period and works of art unto themselves. The photos Tanner has selected are iconic, candid, explosive and intimate - together the book gives readers a unique look at jazz, photography and America, from 1935-65.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810957493
• ISBN 13: 9780810957497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176