Reporter, Down Beat columnist, author of The Golden Age of Jazz (1979), and photographer William P. Gottlieb (1917-2006) pioneered jazz iconography and shaped the American public’s view of jazz. With access to Black jazz musicians in their work environments of nightclubs and concert halls and, in some cases, the private realms of these musicians’ homes, Gottlieb documented New York’s jazz scene during a ten-year period from 1938 to 1948. His photographs of jazz pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) are exemplars of jazz iconography and serve as a case study of how Gottlieb depicted jazz musicians to the mainstream white public through his camera lens. Analysis of these photographs provide insight into the intersections of race, gender, and the politics of Jim Crow (racial segregation) with jazz.
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27 апр 2022
