Tag: new york city
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Billie Holiday: Forever at her peak thanks to photographer
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…
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The Prince of Trinidad
James Aloysius Harden-Hickey (1854 – 1898)
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Bryant Park, New York City. July 17, 2006
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…