The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
by Stephenson, Sam
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0307267091
- ISBN 13
- 9780307267092
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 2009. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 2009, first printing. 4to., 9 3/4" x 11 1/4", xv+268pp., illustrated with 227 photographs in color and black and white. Black laminated boards with orange and white titles. "From 1957 to 1965, Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at his loft, making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career, photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as well as life on the streets of the flower district, as seen from his fourth-floor window. He wired the building like a surreptitious recording studio and made 1,740 reels (4,000 hours) of stereo and mono audiotapes, capturing more than 300 musicians, among them Roy Haynes, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Roland Kirk, Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry, and Paul Bley. He recorded, as well, legends such as pianists Eddie Costa, and Sonny Clark, drummers Ronnie Free and Edgar Bateman, saxophonist Lin Halliday, bassist Henry Grimes, and multi-instrumentalist Eddie Listengart." Presentation signature on fly leaf, else very good plus in very good dust jacket with a closed tear at the front flap fold. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 4to.
Synopsis
Sam Stephenson is a writer and instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project and W. Eugene Smith 55 . He lives in Chatham County, North Carolina.
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- The Wild Muse (US)
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- Title
- The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
- Author
- Stephenson, Sam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0307267091
- ISBN 13
- 9780307267092
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 4to
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- Music;
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