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The exhibition included artifacts from many of the artists that Leonard photographed, including Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, and Ella Fitzgerald. Clinton has said that "Herman Leonard is the greatest jazz photographer in the history of the genre." A keynote address was given by Leonard's daughter Shana Leonard and Stephen Smith.
Aug 20, 2010 · Herman Leonard was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on March 6 1923, the youngest of three children of Jewish immigrants from Romania. Given a camera by his brother Ira when he was 12, Leonard ...
May 6, 2009 · 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 ...
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Sarah Vaughan by Herman Leonard, 1949. Buddy Rich by Herman Leonard, 1954. In post-World War II America, the big bands of the Big Apple were no longer in full swing. Pioneering jazz artists had ...
Biography. Herman Leonard was born in 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania to Romanian immigrants. At the young age of 9, he first witnessed an image being developed in his brother’s darkroom and became enthralled with the magic of photography. As the official photographer for his high school, Herman quickly learned that with a camera in hand, he ...
Aug 16, 2010 · Herman Leonard in 2008. Herman Leonard's life was an example of the phrase "everything in its time." Shortly after earning a fine-arts degree in photography in the late 1940s, Leonard was making a ...
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Aug 18, 2010 · Herman Leonard, an internationally renowned photographer whose haunting, noirish images of postwar jazz life became widely known only in the late 1980s, died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 87 ...
