Jazz

Informationen zum Autor Herman Leonard was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1923. In 1948, he moved to New York City and opened his first studio in Greenwich Village, where he worked for Life , Esquire , and Playboy while recording the jazz scene in his photographs of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Miles Davis. In 2008, Leonard was the recipient of a Lucie award - the photography world's equivalent of the Oscars - for Outstanding Achievement in Portraiture, as well as the Grammy Foundation's first grant award to a photographer. Leonard died in 2010. Klappentext The definitive retrospective of Herman Leonard's jazz photography -- 'The greatest jazz photographer in the history of the genre.' Bill Clinton -- arranged as a chronological journey through jazz's greatest names, from Billie Holiday to Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. The definitive retrospective of Herman Leonard's jazz photography -- 'The greatest jazz photographer in the history of the genre.' Bill Clinton -- arranged as a chronological journey through jazz's greatest names, from Billie Holiday to Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. Zusammenfassung The definitive retrospective of Herman Leonard's jazz photography -- 'The greatest jazz photographer in the history of the genre.' Bill Clinton -- arranged as a chronological journey through jazz's greatest names, from Billie Holiday to Duke Ellington and Miles Davis.

Product details

• Authors: Herman Leonard, Herman (Author) Leonard
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2010
• EAN: 9781848870741
• ISBN: 978-1-84887-074-1
• No. of pages: 303
• Dimensions: 260 mm x 315 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Jazz, Music, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Celebrity, Popular Music, Photographic equipment and techniques: general, Photography and photographs, Photography: portraits and self-portraiture