| Description |
1 online resource (iv, 474 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents -- Foreword by Darius Brubeck -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Approaching jazz photography -- Jazz photography and photographers 1900-1960 -- Jazz writing and the photographic image -- The Jazz image as document -- Expression in the jazz image -- The Play of Gestures: Jazz in the Studio -- Document and realism: early African American jazz photography -- Expressive realism in African American photography -- Authenticity and art: 'New generation' white photography -- Interrogating jazz: exiles and Jewish photography -- Looking forward, looking back: Jazz photography after 1960 -- Conclusion: Herb Snitzer, (1960)-- Appendix: Photographic agency and jazz photography -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Discussion of jazz as a visual subject and analysis of how photographers approached their subject. Includes work often overlooked - from African American photojournalists, studio photographers, early twentieth-century émigrés, Jewish exiles of the 1930s and vernacular snapshots. 135 half-tones |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Jazz in art.
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Photography -- History -- 20th century
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Jazz -- History and criticism
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Jazz
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Jazz in art
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Photography
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1789384230 |
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9781789384239 |
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