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William "Bill" Gottlieb, an American photographer renowned for documenting the "Golden Age" of American jazz in the 1930s and 40s, captured intimate and iconic portraits of jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker.
In The Seer, Gottlieb emphasized the archaeological quality of the color by adding sand to the paint. The boldly drawn totemic designs make numerous references to the human body—the stick figure in the upper right corner, the four-finger motifs along the bottom and right side, and the repeated eye motif.
Jun 8, 2024 · Photographs by William Gottlieb during the golden age of jazz are evidence of the rise of jazz as an invaluable American tradition. Gottlieb’s seminal photographs preserve these unrepeatable moments for the annals of history.
An example of Gottlieb's first and most common type of photograph is his famous portrait of Billie Holiday, perhaps the most widely reproduced photograph of any jazz artist. Of this portrait, Gottlieb said, "I especially tried to capture personality, but that's an elusive quality and I was successful only a portion of the time.
If you’ve seen the most famous photographs of Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Frank Sinatra, Django Reinhardt, or nearly any other jazz legend from the mid-20th century, you’ve seen the work of William P. Gottlieb.
Mar 27, 2012 · Between 1938 and 1948, he documented the jazz scene in New York City and Washington, D.C., and created what eventually became some of history’s most iconic portraits of jazz greats.
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Oct 2, 1995 · The Library recently acquired an important collection of photographs by William P. Gottlieb, a jazz columnist who shot some 1,500 portraits of more than 250 jazz musicians from 1938 to the late 1940s.
