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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith New, Sealed
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- ISBN
- 9780226824840
- Book Title
- Jazz Loft Project : Photographs and Tapes of w. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
- Item Length
- 11in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Photography, Music
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Individual Photographers / Monographs, Subjects & Themes / Street Photography, Photojournalism
- Item Width
- 9.5in
- Item Weight
- 59.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Reissue of an acclaimed collection of images from photographer W. Eugene Smith's time in a New York City loft among jazz musicians. In 1957, Eugene Smith walked away from his longtime job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City's wholesale flower district. The loft was the late-night haunt of musicians, including some of the biggest names in jazz--Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk among them. Here, from 1957 to 1965, he made nearly 40,000 photographs and approximately 4,000 hours of recordings of musicians. Smith found solace in the chaotic, somnambulistic world of the loft and its artists, and he turned his documentary impulses away from work on his major Pittsburg photo essay and toward his new surroundings. Smith's Jazz Loft Project has been legendary in the worlds of art, photography, and music for more than forty years, but until the publication of this book, no one had seen his extraordinary photographs or read any of the firsthand accounts of those who were there and lived to tell the tales.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226824845
ISBN-13
9780226824840
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28058373318
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jazz Loft Project : Photographs and Tapes of w. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Individual Photographers / Monographs, Subjects & Themes / Street Photography, Photojournalism
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Photography, Music
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
9.5in
Item Weight
59.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3508.8.N5s65 2023
Edition Description
Enlarged Edition
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There are many terrific photos in The Jazz Loft Project of musicians playing, chatting, or resting among Smith's archive. But these photos read quite differently from famous photos by such photographers as Carol Reiff, William Gottlieb, or William Claxton. They are stranger productions altogether--often fragmented, framing hands or feet alone, or featuring unplayed instruments with no musicians in sight. . . . Stephenson has undertaken a massive task, involving extensive archival and field research, as well as innumerable editorial decisions, and he has produced a stunning book that winds its argument less along the wire of discourse than across a complex web of images in juxtaposition. Unlike his gargantuan Pittsburgh project, this book is not something Smith imagined, or had in view. But Stephenson has done something Smith found very hard to do, and has done it, moreover, in a way that is true to Smith's extraordinary vision of the world., The samples from the tapes that Stephenson had transcribed work with the photos to bring a moment in jazz to life as perhaps no work in any other medium, including documentary cinema, ever has. Absolutely magnificent., The most chaotic and soulful gift book this year... an elegiac stew of sight and sound, and a singularly weird, vital and thrumming American document., [Smith's] photos of the city offer a rare glimpse into a neighborhood being itself when it thought no one was watching. This will be an essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in the history of New York., Smith was a driven, supremely talented man who wanted his photography to change the world--and it did. . . . After Smith's 1979 death, some 4,000 hours of tape reposed, with his splendid photos, at the University of Arizona. What was on them was unsubstantiated legend. Enter Sam Stephenson, who tended their digitization and over painstaking years collated them with oral histories and other documentation. The result captures American culture in creative flux from the ground-eye level., A book whose pages convey, beautifully, the strange cultural moment when a rat-infested hulk of a building hosted a perfect storm of creativity., [ The Jazz Loft Project ] is a riveting work of social archaeology, and extraordinary testament to artists whose music caught all the tumult and excitement of a fast-changing America. It is also a glimpse inside the frenetic mind of a photographic pioneer; an obsessive, maverick genius, who died, poor and relatively unsung, in 1978, leaving behind some twenty-two tons of archive material, including his unfinished and ultimately unfinishable jazz project., Working with photographs and audiotapes made by photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, Stephenson relates the history of an active jazz musicians' loft in New York City in a pivotal era., Smith left a magnificent mess, and Stephenson, in his second decade of research on the man, maintains the same simultaneous eye both for detail and the bigger picture., [Smith's photos] are less focused on expressive acts than on a general scene--where a glass of beer on a piano is more important than the music going on fuzzily behind it, or the whole exhausting flow of an all-night session is summarized in a pair of shoes hovering over a dozen cigarette butts on the floor. . . . The loft photos are part of a larger attempt to capture the asymmetrical constellations that form and unform all around us, all the time: inside and outside the building are equally fascinating to Smith., The highlight of the book is the photographs of musicians in the passions of playing. In one photo, [Thelonious] Monk is leaning back--cigarette dangling from his mouth--just as he lifts his right hand off the keyboard. He is drenched in shadow, but the light catches his face creating the stark contrast that distinguishes Smith's work., Smith was galvanized by the musicians' passion. . . . He seems to have likewise inspired by their sound; the photographs frequently suggest a kind of rhythm. . . . The photographs are also patently theatrical., The Jazz Loft Project 's unique source material gives readers a perspective on musicians involved in the bebop that could not be gleaned from their depiction in magazines or even the music they created.
Copyright Date
2023
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2022-054141
Dewey Decimal
779.978165097471
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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