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Author Pinson, K. Heather.

Title The jazz image : seeing music through Herman Leonard's photography / K. Heather Pinson.

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series American made music series
American made music series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-235) and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010.
Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010.
Jazz musicians -- Portraits.
Jazz musicians.
Genre/Form Portraits.
Subject Jazz -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1941-1950 -- History and criticism.
Jazz.
New York (State) -- New York.
Chronological Term 1941-1950
Subject Jazz -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1951-1960 -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1951-1960
Subject Portrait photography -- New York (State) -- New York.
Portrait photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz.
Chronological Term 1941-1960
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Portraits.
Other Form: Print version: Pinson, K. Heather. Jazz image. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010 9781604734942 (DLC) 2009052114 (OCoLC)466361476
ISBN 9781604734959 (electronic book)
1604734957 (electronic book)
9781604734942
1604734949
Standard No. 9786612700347