Between 1938 and 1948, William P. Gottlieb wrote about and photographed the jazz world. In 1995, the Library of Congress acquired his collection of
approximately 1500 photographs covering more than 250 jazz musicians. While discussed here
seven years ago, not mentioned at that time was the fact that Mr. Gottlieb agreed to transfer his copyrights into the public domain 15 years after acquisition. Fast forward to 2010, and you will find that the Library has added high resolution TIFFs download links to the image pages (click on the thumbnail images to get to the TIFF download links).
A few pictures to whet your appetite:
Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie,
Cab Calloway,
Les Paul,
Django Reinhardt,
Nat King Cole,
Duke Ellington,
Sidney Bechet, and
Louis Armstrong.
posted by fings
on Aug 6, 2010 -
19 comments
The 65-Year-Old Virgin: Robert Bergman’s photographs, finally revealed. "The last time Robert Bergman had a gallery show, it was 1964, and he was 20 years old. The college dropout and his best friend, Danny Seymour, took their earliest photographs, produced in a 'lint-filled darkroom'—a.k.a. his mother’s laundry room—to a 'rinky-dink bookstore' in Minneapolis’s run-down West Bank. 'Me and Danny just threw some pictures up on the wall,' he says. 'You couldn’t even call that a show.' Bergman is 65 now, and making a real debut in not one but three venues, at
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; Chelsea’s
Yossi Milo Gallery; and, extraordinarily, the
National Gallery of Art. (This is the National Gallery’s first artist’s debut show
ever.)"
An interview with Robert Bergman, and
a slideshow of some of his work.
posted by ocherdraco
on Nov 4, 2009 -
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