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

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

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Bibliographic Details
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

Table of Contents:

The formation of the jazz image in visual culture
The construction of signs in jazz photography
Ceci n'est pas jazz : the battle for ownership
A "style portrait" of the avant-garde
The visual image of jazz
Appendix A : Herman Leonard timeline 1923 to 2006
Appendix B : List of exhibitions for Herman Leonard's photography.