American photographer William P. Gottlieb was responsible for some of the most famous portraits of the golden age of jazz.
According to him, Billie Holiday was at her musical and physical peak when he took this picture in 1947, which is considered the most widely used jazz photo of all time. Ironically, that was because she spent the previous year in a federal reformatory for possession of drugs.…
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1200 kilometers off the coast of Brazil there’s a small island called Trinidad. It is not the Trinidad of Trinidad and Tobago, but a smaller piece of land covering about 10 square kilometers. No one lives in Trinidad and, in fact, few human beings have set foot on its volcanic hills. However, once upon a time Trinidad was a kingdom fought over by the English, the Portuguese, and the Brazilians.…
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I took the pictures used in this montage on July 17, 2006 at around 5pm. People is waiting for a screening of “The Band Wagon” during the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. I made the montage the following day using Photoshop CS2 and completely forgot about it until a few days ago, when I began plans to shoot a series of similar montages in Los Angeles.…
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