Editor's Note: Herman Leonard died on Saturday, August 14, 2010 at the age of 87. More than six decades ago, Herman Leonard began photographing icons of jazz in the smoke-filled nightclubs and ...
Ogden Museum of Southern Art has announced its new exhibition Herman Leonard: Images of Jazz, presented by The Helis ...
Think of jazz photography, and you must think of Herman Leonard, the shutterbug whose moody shots of the ’40s and ’50s jazz pantheon of 52nd Street and Harlem capture the soul of that musical era like ...
Jazz photographer Herman Leonard has passed away. Leonard is considered to be one of the great midcentury jazz-scene photographers, capturing Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Frank ...
Enthralled by the music and those who made it, Herman Leonard (1923–2010) began haunting the New York’s jazz clubs after opening his first studio in Greenwich Village in 1948. Armed with his Speed ...
WASHINGTON — When Herman Leonard began taking pictures at New York jazz clubs in the 1940s, he used two strobe lights because that’s all he could afford. He had a bulky 4-by-5 Speed Graphic camera, ...
Herman Leonard returns to KCRW to showcase his remarkable book, Jazz, Giants, Journeys: The Photography of Herman Leonard. He not only shares anecdotes of his experience with Miles Davis, Marlon ...
Herman Leonard, a photographer with a commanding mastery of light whose dramatic and expressive nightclub portraits of jazz artists starting in the 1940s helped shape and promote jazz's nocturnal ...
NEW YORK - A woman answered the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron. "First I thought, This is the maid," says photographer Herman Leonard. "She said, 'Excuse me, but I've got to feed the ...
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 ...
Herman Leonard returns to KCRW to showcase his remarkable book, Jazz, Giants, Journeys: The Photography of Herman Leonard. He not only shares anecdotes of his experience with Miles Davis, Marlon ...
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