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Sight readings : photographers and American jazz, 1900-1960 /

Discussion of jazz as a visual subject and analysis of how photographers approached their subject. Includes work often overlooked - from African American photojournalists, studio photographers, early twentieth-century émigrés, Jewish exiles of the 1930s and vernacular snapshots. 135 half-tones.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ainsworth, Alan John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Foreword by Darius Brubeck
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Approaching jazz photography
  • Jazz photography and photographers 1900-1960
  • Jazz writing and the photographic image
  • The Jazz image as document
  • Expression in the jazz image
  • The Play of Gestures: Jazz in the Studio
  • Document and realism: early African American jazz photography
  • Expressive realism in African American photography
  • Authenticity and art: 'New generation' white photography
  • Interrogating jazz: exiles and Jewish photography
  • Looking forward, looking back: Jazz photography after 1960
  • Conclusion: Herb Snitzer, (1960)-- Appendix: Photographic agency and jazz photography
  • Bibliography
  • Index