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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinson, K. Heather.

Series:

American made music series.

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz musicians--Portraits.

Jazz musicians.

Jazz--New York (State)--New York--1941-1950--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Jazz--New York (State)--New York--1951-1960--History and criticism.

Portrait photography--New York (State)--New York.

Portrait photography.

Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010.

Leonard, Herman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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.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

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 2008

Appendix B : List of exhibitions for Herman Leonard's photography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612700347

9781621034438

1621034437

9781282700345

1282700340

9781604734959

1604734957

OCLC:

651602040