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Blue notes in black and white : photography and jazz / Benjamin Cawthra.

Title
Blue notes in black and white : photography and jazz / Benjamin Cawthra.
Author
Cawthra, Benjamin.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Description
xii, 345 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
Summary
Charting the development of jazz photography from the swing era of the 1930s to the rise of black nationalism in the '60s, this title offers an account of the partnership between two of the twentieth century's innovative art forms. It introduces us to the great jazz photographers - including Gjon Mili, William Gottlieb, Herman Leonard, and more.
Subject
  • Jazz in art
  • Jazz musicians in art
  • Photography, Artistic > History > 20th century
  • Photography > United States
  • Jazz > History and criticism
  • Jazz musicians > United States
  • Photography, Artistic > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Life goes to a jazz party: photography and the politics of swing -- Setting the stage: a tale of two parties -- "Swing," segregation, and Peterson's Satchelmouth -- Jammin' at Gjon's: Mili's Trio of jazz photo-essays -- Picturing bebop: Dizzy Gillespie and the postwar jazz image -- Dizzy Gillespie, the bebop image, and life -- Jazz seen and unseen: William Gottlieb, bebop, and down beat -- Herman Leonard, metronome, and the iconography of jazz -- Jazz man/pop star: the LP, Miles Davis, and the 1950s -- Columbia, the LP, and jazz -- Miles Davis and the art of the album cover -- The package evolves: Porgy and Bess to Someday My Prince Will Come -- Sonny Rollins and the art of the independent record labels -- Jazz west coast: William Claxton and the California image -- Sonny Rollins: way out west -- Selling hard bop: prestige, blue note, and riverside -- Roy Decarava's jazz: fine art, black art, and the 1960s -- Edna Smith, The Family of Man, and The Sweet Flypaper of Life -- A photographer's gallery, Kamoinge workshop, and race in jazz -- The jazz photographs: John Coltrane and The sound I saw -- Coda: dark rooms, open spaces.
ISBN
  • 9780226098753 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226098753 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011011221
OCLC
  • 707842737
  • SCSB-10052904
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Harvard Library