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 ...
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, ...
Leonard photographed and befriended the greats from the heyday of jazz. In his artful photographs of musicians such as Billie Holiday, Dizzy... Remembering Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard Herman ...
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, Los Angeles, May 2010—Photograph by Yousef Linjawi We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Herman Leonard yesterday, Saturday, August 14, 2010. Herman was a rare human ...
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 ...
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 dog.' She ...
Music and photography lovers are remembering the iconic jazz photographer Herman Leonard. He moved to Los Angeles from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina damaged his home and studio there. Leonard ...
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 ...
Herman Leonard-- the photographer who captured some of the best-known images of jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis -- answered a knock at the door of ...
The home of Herman Leonard is adorned with the rich décor of a man who has seen the world. Hanging on the wall are woven temple offerings from Bali and votive clay tablets from Burma. On a shelf is a ...
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 ...
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