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The Jazz Pictures | 
 enlarge | Author: Stanley Crouch
Publisher: Arena Editions
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2025519
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 203
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.1
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 10.5 x 1
ISBN: 1892041111
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.650922
EAN: 9781892041111
ASIN: 1892041111
Publication Date: April 1, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
Carol Friedman's jazz photography is, for the most part, composed of stylishly rendered studio portraits--but her art goes far beyond mere documentation. She strips her subjects of props and unnatural poses, leaving the viewer with intimate renderings of musicians, alone. Friedman loves to get in close (both literally and figuratively), and tight shots dominate this collection. This up-close-and-personal perspective puts the reader eyeball to eyeball with the giants of America's jazz tradition. From this perspective, we are able to read between the lines etched on these faces and, somehow, learn a little more about our subjects. What's the mischievous force bending a grin into Sun Ra's cheeks? What are the deep thoughts blowing stormy across Ron Carter's brow? What is the combination of emotions that radiates from Charles Brown, making him seem so warm, so soulful? These are the wonderful questions at the heart of Friedman's utterly captivating work--perhaps not so coincidentally, these are also the questions that inhabit the soul of jazz. --S. Duda
Product Description
Carol Friedman began photographing the era's legendary jazz musicians in 1978. This series of portraits would come to be the core of her work--first as a student and throughout her career as a studio photographers--for the next twenty years. Believing that musical personality transcended performance, Friedman did not make her pictures while the music was being played. The resulting images do indeed capture the music--and as well portray the idiosyncratic charm and personal style that has been the hallmark of jazz men and women ab initio. This collection offers a generous assemblage of these photographs. Shot in black and white, these elegant images make evident the photographer's admiration for--and keen attention to--her subjects and the musical form of jazz itself. Friedman is clearly focused on style and drama--and on the emotion that she elicits from her subjects. Whether photographed in studio settings or jazz club dressing rooms, these photographs reveal a side of these gifted individuals that has seldom been seen. We are shown Sarah Vaughn as the quintessential diva, Ornette Coleman presenting deliberate irony, Wynton Marsalis in his stylish appropriation of young Ellington, Chet Baker, his demeanor perched between matinee idol and hopeless drug addict, Abbey Lincoln flaunting joyful omniscience and Count Basie in all his regal splendor. Photographs of Miles Davis, Eubie Blake, Stan Getz, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Randy Weston, Art Blakey, Red Garland, Dexter Gordon, Gil Evans, Shirley Horn, Joe Henderson, Kenny Barron, Johnny Hartman, Gerry Mulligan, Cecil Taylor, Roy Eldridge and Joe Williams are among those included in this collection of 100 duotones. This volume includes a foreword by Gordon Parks and an introduction by essayist Stanley Crouch.
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Carol.... Where are you ? ...Pat Burns August 7, 2000
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
..yes that Pat Burns pat@techos.com
Carol Friedman Rules! July 31, 1999
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
Carol Friedman's book, The Jazz Pictures, changed my life. If it wasn't for her pictures I would have become terribly obese and died.
Just breathtaking imagry March 22, 1999
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Picture after picture, you are inspired by Carol's constant search for "truth" in her images. The naked "truth" about these Jazz artists is captured by her awe inspiring pictures
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