The Jazz Image : Seeing Music through Herman Leonard's Photography.

Typically a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal prerequisites: black and white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his instrument. That's the jazz archetype that photography created. Author K. Heather Pinson dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pinson, Heather K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
Series:American made music series.
Subjects:
Leonard, Herman, > 1923-2010.
Leonard, Herman, > 1923-2010
1941-1960
Jazz musicians > Portraits.
Jazz > New York (State) > New York > 1941-1950 > History and criticism.
Jazz > New York (State) > New York > 1951-1960 > History and criticism.
Portrait photography > New York (State) > New York.
Musiciens de jazz > Portraits.
Jazz > New York (État) > New York > 1941-1950 > Histoire et critique.
Jazz > New York (État) > New York > 1951-1960 > Histoire et critique.
Portraits (Photographie) > New York (État) > New York.
Jazz
Jazz musicians
Portrait photography
New York (State) > New York
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Portraits
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 The Formation of the Jazz Image in Visual Culture; CHAPTER 2 The Construction of Signs in Jazz Photography; CHAPTER 3 Ceci n'est pas jazz: The Battle for Ownership; CHAPTER 4 A "Style Portrait" of the Avant-Garde; CONCLUSION: The Visual Image of Jazz; APPENDIX A: Herman Leonard Timeline 1923 to 2008; APPENDIX B: List of Exhibitions for Herman Leonard's Photography; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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