The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography

The great improvisational American jazz musicians of the mid-20th century inspired a generation of photographers to develop a looser, moodier style of visual expression. That evocative approach is on striking display in The Jazz Image. Covering six decades of performers —from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to John Coltrane and Miles Davis—this unique collection is as much a comprehensive catalogue of jazz greats as it is a salute to the photographers who captured them.Lee Tanner, a leading authority on jazz photography, has selected works—by such noted jazz photographers as Herman Leonard, Bob Willoughby, Milt Hinton, and Bill Claxton—that are iconic, candid, explosive, and intimate. They provide a simultaneous look at jazz, photography, and America from 1935 into the 1990s.

Lee Tanner has been photographing jazz musicians for nearly half a century and was a jazz fanatic from an early age. His photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, Jazz Magazine (France), Jazz Times, American Photo and Popular Photography. Nat Hentoff is a jazz critic, historian, biographer, anecdotist and columnist for the Village Voice, Legal Times, Washington Times, The Progressive and Jewish World Review. He was named as one of six 2004 NEA Jazz Masters, the first non-musician to win this prestigious award

The great improvisational American jazz musicians of the mid-20th century inspired a generation of photographers to develop a looser, moodier style of visual expression. That evocative approach is on striking display in "The Jazz Image." Covering six decades of performers -- from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to John Coltrane and Miles Davis -- this unique collection is as much a comprehensive catalogue of jazz greats as it is a salute to the photographers who captured them. Lee Tanner, a leading authority on jazz photography, has selected works -- by such noted jazz photographers as Herman Leonard, Bob Willoughby, Milt Hinton, and Bill Claxton -- that are iconic, candid, explosive, and intimate. They provide a simultaneous look at jazz, photography, and America from 1935 into the 1990s.

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