The jazz image : seeing music through Herman Leonard's photography /

The jazz image : seeing music through Herman Leonard's photography /

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Author / Creator:	Pinson, K. Heather.
Imprint:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	American made music series American made music series.
Subject:	Leonard, Herman, -- 1923-2010. Leonard, Herman, -- 1923-2010. 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. Jazz. Jazz musicians. Portrait photography. New York (State) -- New York. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Portraits.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13538635

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ISBN:	9781604734959 1604734957 9781604734942 1604734949
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-235) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Typically, a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal pre-requisites: black and white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his instrument. This book reveals how such a steadfast script developed visually and what this convention meant for the music. Herman Leonard's photographic depictions of African American jazz musicians in New York not only created a visual template of a black musician of the 1950s, but also became the standard configuration of the music's neo-classical sound today.
Other form:	Print version: Pinson, K. Heather. Jazz image. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010 9781604734942
Standard no.:	9786612700347

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Summary:	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 discovers how such a steadfast script developed visually and what this convention meant for the music.<br> <br> Album covers, magazines, books, documentaries, art photographs, posters, and various other visual extensions of popular culture formed the commonly held image of the jazz player. Through assimilation, there emerged a generalized composite of how mainstream jazz looked and sounded. Pinson evaluates representations of jazz musicians from 1945 to 1959, concentrating on the seminal role played by Herman Leonard (b. 1923). Leonard's photographic depictions of African American jazz musicians in New York not only created a visual template of a black musician of the 1950s, but also became the standard configuration of the music's neoclassical sound today. To discover how the image of the musician affected mainstream jazz, Pinson examines readings from critics, musicians, and educators, as well as interviews, musical scores, recordings, transcriptions, liner notes, and oral narratives.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-235) and index.
ISBN:	9781604734959 1604734957 9781604734942 1604734949