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Sight Readings : Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960
Jazz Photographers 1900-1960 - Book - by Alan John Ainsworth
(2022)
This
book explores the work of a wide range of American photographers
attracted to jazz during the period 1900-60. It includes discussions of
jazz as a visual subject, its attraction to different types of
photographers and offers analysis of why and how they approached the
subject in the way they did. While some of these photographers are
widely recognized for their work, many African American
photojournalists, studio photographers, early twentieth-century emigres,
the Jewish exiles of the 1930s and vernacular snapshots are frequently
overlooked.
Drawing
on ideas from contemporary photographic theory backed up by extensive
archival research, this book allows the reader to explore and understand
twentieth-century jazz photography in both an engaging and
comprehensive fashion.