Blue notes in black and white
Subtitle: photography and jazz
By: Benjamin Cawthra
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780226098753
Subjects: Jazz; Jazz in art; Photography; History and criticism; Jazz musicians in art; Jazz musicians; Artistic Photography; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Life goes to a jazz party: photography and the politics of swing; title: Setting the stage: a tale of two parties; title: "Swing," segregation, and Peterson's Satchelmouth; title: Jammin' at Gjon's: Mili's Trio of jazz photo-essays; title: Picturing bebop: Dizzy Gillespie and the postwar jazz image; title: Dizzy Gillespie, the bebop image, and life; title: Jazz seen and unseen: William Gottlieb, bebop, and down beat; title: Herman Leonard, metronome, and the iconography of jazz; title: Jazz man/pop star: the LP, Miles Davis, and the 1950s; title: Columbia, the LP, and jazz; title: Miles Davis and the art of the album cover; title: The package evolves: Porgy and Bess to Someday My Prince Will Come; title: Sonny Rollins and the art of the independent record labels; title: Jazz west coast: William Claxton and the California image; title: Sonny Rollins: way out west; title: Selling hard bop: prestige, blue note, and riverside; title: Roy Decarava's jazz: fine art, black art, and the 1960s; title: Edna Smith, The Family of Man, and The Sweet Flypaper of Life; title: A photographer's gallery, Kamoinge workshop, and race in jazz; title: The jazz photographs: John Coltrane and The sound I saw; title: Coda: dark rooms, open spaces.