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  Herman Leonard - Jazz Classics, jazz photographs, jazz photography
Herman Leonard was born in 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
To Leonard, Dizzy Gillespie was a "monument to jazz.
According to Leonard, Duke Ellington was "elegant, refined, articulate, attentive to the slightest details." At a concert in Paris Leonard made the photograph, Duke Ellington, Paris, 1958.
www.andrewsmithgallery.com /exhibitions/hermanleonard/hermanleonard.htm   (846 words)

  
 Herman B. Leonard - Biography - Faculty & Research
Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr.
Professor Leonard is a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a 900,000-member Massachusetts HMO, of the Hitachi Foundation for the US, and of the ACLU of Massachusetts.
Professor Leonard was a member of the Governor's Council on Economic Policy for the State of Alaska, of the Governor's Advisory Council on Infrastructure in Massachusetts, and of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee's Private Sector Advisory Committee on Infrastructure.
dor.hbs.edu /fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=hleonard&loc=extn   (443 words)

  
 Herman Leonard's Profile at Harvard University
Herman B. Dutch Leonard is George F. Baker Jr.
Herman Leonard welcomes media inquiries on the following subjects.
Leonard, Herman B. "Two Simple Mechanisms for Advancing the Democratic Governance of Hong Kong." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP06-034, August 2006.
ksgfaculty.harvard.edu /Herman_Leonard   (374 words)

  
 Smoke & Light: The Jazz Photos of Herman Leonard... By Jim Merod
So many of Leonard's photos are stunning in their initial and lasting impact that it is difficult to choose one that represents the whole.
Since it was crucial for Leonard to establish each shot by careful manipulation of the subject and the surrounding environment, Leonard created strongly-rendered fields of focused light for maximum drama.
Leonard's special way with light and shade, with form and the instant's fragile moment, evolves from his commitment to the person being captured.
www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/viewpoint/1101/herman.htm   (1783 words)

  
 Herman Leonard
His third showing at the S K Josefsberg Studio, this exhibition is a premiere of Herman Leonard's lesser known imagery of the fashion and documentary genres, while still including selections of his classic jazz images.
Herman Leonard was first charmed by the camera at the age of eleven, his attention drawn by an older brother's study of art, and consequently gained peer popularity photographing his school chums.
Herman Leonard continues to live and work in New Orleans, where he still frequents the local clubs and is greeted by all walking down any given street.
www.skjstudio.com /leonard   (436 words)

  
 Frame After Frame: Herman Leonard Biography
Herman Leonard's life has been shaped by two forces: his fascination with the camera and his love of jazz music.
England was swept by Herman Leonard's candid images of legendary jazz figures; BBC-TV created a half-hour special on his work, and the London Times devoted eight full pages in its Sunday supplement to the exhibition.
Leonard returned to the United States in 1989 and currently lives in New Orleans, a city he feels has embraced him like he was born there.
www.lpb.org /programs/frame/leonard.html   (914 words)

  
 Photography collections
Herman Leonard (1923-) was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and served as a military photographer in Burma during World War II.
The Herman Leonard Photographic Collection consists of eighty-four fl and white photographic prints depicting musicians performing at various American and European jazz clubs between 1948 and 1991.
The Herman Leonard Photographic Collection was donated to the National Museum of American History by Mr.
americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d6445.htm   (603 words)

  
 Jazz Legends | Catalyst Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
For close to five decades Leonard has turned his passionate and prolific talent to the world of jazz, creating a stunning collection of images of many of the top names in jazz and in turn documenting a vital era in the history of American culture.
One of Herman Leonard's more striking and powerful images is his classic fl and white photograph "Duke Ellington, Paris 1958." Here Ellington is seated at the piano, the inky flness of the nightclub sliced diagonally by a single spotlight illuminating the musician in a shimmering profile.
Leonard's images document the evolution of one of America's greatest cultural contributions, but more than historical records, Herman Leonard's work honors and pays tribute to the African-American creators and innovators of jazz.
www.catalystmagazine.net /issues/story.cfm?story=455   (611 words)

  
 Herman Leonard photographs, Herman Leonard photography, jazz musician photographs>
Herman Leonard apprenticed with Karsh in 1948, during the Einstein sessions.
Herman Leonard had a successful fashion photography studio in Paris in the 1960s.
Most of Leonard's jazz photographs are taken using both ambient and artificial lighting.
www.agallery.com /Pages/photographers/leonard.html   (261 words)

  
 Woody Herman - Verve Records
By 1943 the Woody Herman Orchestra was becoming the Herd.
By 1945 Herman had an essentially new orchestra during this period the band was considered the most exciting new big band in jazz.
After this group also known as the Four Brothers came to an end, Herman started the Third Herd, which was a little more conservative than the first 2 herds.
www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?aid=2841   (363 words)

  
 Classic Gaming Expo - Leonard Herman
Leonard Herman is a technical writer and computer programmer.
Herman, who is a long standing member of the North Atlantic Videogame Aficionados (NAVA), has served as an advisor for Videotopia, a traveling videogame museum exhibit.
Herman resides in New Jersey with his wife Tamar and sons Ronnie and Gregory.
www.cgexpo.com /bios/lherman.htm   (97 words)

  
 The King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation
As a struggling young photographer, Herman Leonard exchanged his photographic prints for free admission to nightclubs and the privilege of photographing the greatest jazz artists of the day….Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Art Tatum, and many more.
The majority were taken during the 40’s and 50’s; and the atmosphere and soul of the era shine from the faces of the artists Leonard loved.
Herman Leonard’s photographs are a true first hand account of some of the greatest musical events in the 20th century.
www.kingtisdell.org /hermanleonard.html   (105 words)

  
 Gallery Two Seventy - Fall 2004 - Herman Leonard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The significance of Leonard’s work was confirmed when the Smithsonian Institution added his entire collection of Jazz photographs to its permanent archives of musical history.
Herman Leonard began his career shooting such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Harry Truman and Clark Gable.
Leonard accompanying photographs from the 1940s through the 1990s, the book would make a unique addition to any collection of music or photography.
www.bergencountycamera.com /gallery/hleonard/hleonard.html   (253 words)

  
 Fund Established to Help New Orleans Photog Herman Leonard and Family
Leonard's granddaughter India, who requires around-the-clock care as a result of cerebral palsy and microcephaly, a condition in which her brain is underdeveloped, is among the family members who had to evacuate the city.
Shana Leonard, Stephen Smith and India had moved to New Orleans earlier this year to be near Herman, who is 82.
Glickman says Leonard's home was submerged by floodwaters and much of what he had is lost, including many prints, though his digital files were backed up and he was able to save some of his negatives.
www.pdnonline.com /pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001055458   (399 words)

  
 NPR : Flood Imperils Work of Famed Jazz Photographer
Herman Leonard has been behind the camera since he was a student at Ohio University in 1940.
On Aug. 27, as the storm approached New Orleans, the 82-year-old Leonard, his manager and a small group of friends scrambled to save as many of his photos as they could, hustling them to the third floor of his home.
The Smithsonian has more than 130 Herman Leonard photographs in its permanent collection, spanning a career that began when he was a photography student at Ohio University in 1940.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4863541   (401 words)

  
 Polk Museum of Art :: More Than Just An Art Museum
Herman Leonard is one of this country’s most important portrait photographers.
Beyond Leonard’s gift at sensing the right moment for the most dramatic image is his technical mastery of the photographic printing process.
As music writer Richard Williams once wrote of Leonard’s jazz portraits: “There could be no better symbol for the illicit mystery and poignant impermanence of jazz than the cigarette in a Herman Leonard photograph.
www.polkmuseumofart.org /content/interior.asp?section=exhibitions&body=2006/hermanleonard.htm   (372 words)

  
 Herman Leonard Photography, LLC
In the late 1940's, Herman Leonard's passion for jazz brought him to the swinging clubs of Broadway, 52nd Street and Harlem.
In 1956 Leonard was chosen to be Marlon Brando's personal photographer for an extensive research trip to the Far East.
The jazz photographs of Herman Leonard appear as companion to the great musicians who created the unique sounds of America's original art form.
www.hermanleonard.com /about.html   (187 words)

  
 Jazz Memories: Music of the Jazz Masters - Photographs from Herman Leonard By Jim Merod
The two are presented, not as heavyweight be-bop masters on stage, but as happy men, relaxed in their most natural element: joking or clowning with one another for the sake of nothing but the sheer joy of it all.
From that scene of delight, Leonard's camera work captures, one by one, the major artists whose music is featured on the two discs.
We see Tatum, in Leonard's moving portrait, however, from a position slightly above and to the left of the pianist -- eyes closed, hair trimmed, his lower lip thrust forward, chin cradled against his gorgeous folded hands.
www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/viewpoint/0302/herman.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Archives: Story
Leonard's life work in photography were presented to Russellville Middle School and Russellville High School students and photography workshops were conducted with students.
Leonard was chosen to be Marlon Brando's personal photographer for an extensive trip to the Far East.
Leonard critiqued the student photos and was overwhelmed with the quality of their work.
www.newsdemocratleader.com /articles/2006/01/31/news/school_news/snews02.txt   (701 words)

  
 Herman Leonard: making music with light - jazz photographer - Interview African American Review - Find Articles
Leonard: I'm glad to hear that, because it wasn't consciously done that way.
Leonard: Because you had to take your time.
I was a photographer and I went to school for it, but I went to Canada and spent a year as an apprentice with Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian of Armenian descent.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n2_v29/ai_17534785   (964 words)

  
 Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Photographer Herman Leonard interview
For many of us, the photography of Herman Leonard is our first link to jazz culture.
We were honored that Herman Leonard took the time and consented to an exclusive interview with Jerry Jazz Musician.
You can also visit Herman Leonard's web site to view more of his work at his web site, Herman Leonard.
www.jerryjazzmusician.com /linernotes/hleonard.html   (3020 words)

  
 Leica Photography Forum: OT: New Orleans Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard -- Documentary on Sundance tonight
Tonight (August 29) is the premier of a Sundance Channel documentary describing Herman Leonard's efforts to recover his studio and its treasure of jazz photographs and archives, badly damaged by Katrina.
I've only met Herman once but his is a familiar face that I was used to seeing quite often around the neighborhood.
The depiction of Herman Leonard (now 83 in fact, though that was hard to believe given his energy, affect, etc.) was surpisingly detailed, given that this was just a one-hour film and he was not on-camera for the entire hour...
www.photo.net /bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Hpn7   (437 words)

  
 Photographs of Jazz Greats by Herman Leonard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
FRAME AFTER FRAME: THE IMAGES OF HERMAN LEONARD tells the story of the life and work of this renowned photographer through interviews with Leonard and his friends, and, of course, through the extraordinary photographs he has produced.
After his discharge from the army and graduation from Ohio University in 1947, young Herman Leonard went north to Canada to apprentice with world-famous photographic artist Yousuf Karsh.
In recent years, Leonard's jazz portraits have been "rediscovered." More than 10,00 people saw an exhibition at a small London gallery during its month-long run in the 1980s.
net.unl.edu /~swi/arts/jazzphoto.html   (443 words)

  
 KENNEDY MUSEUM EXHIBITS PHOTOS OF LEGENDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Leonard graduated from Ohio University in 1947 with a bachelor of fine arts degree and donated the photographs to his alma mater in 1993.
Leonard was the subject of a half-hour documentary, "Frame After Frame: The Images of Herman Leonard," that aired nationally on PBS stations in April.
Photographs by Leonard and fellow jazz photographers William Gottlieb and Bill Claxton will be shown during a worldwide tour planned by Ohio University later this year, Nab said.
www.ohiou.edu /news/months/may98/273.html   (543 words)

  
 Woody Herman - Woody Herman's Finest Hour - Verve Records
Woody Herman always loved entertaining an audience, and the various big bands he led over the course of his long career proved that it was possible to make music that was serious and challenging as well as entertaining.
This collection traces Herman's career from 1939's "Woodchopper's Ball",is first and most durable hit, through some of the best work of his groundbreaking First and Second Herds, into the 1960s.
The result is a portrait of a bandleader who mastered the art of remaining contemporary while at the same time remaining true to his own musical vision.
www.vervemusicgroup.com /product.aspx?ob=prd&src=srs&pid=9945   (173 words)

  
 Mosaic Records
Herman Leonard is a giant who rose to fame in the 1940s and early 50s.
Before long, he developed a relationship with many great musicians, and his gorgeous images, back-lit against a dark background, firmly establised him within the pantheon of jazz photographers.
There are about 300 of Herman Leonard Open Edition 11x14 prints available for $1100.
www.mosaicrecords.com /Herman.asp   (114 words)

  
 Ohio University Today, Spring 1997, Herman Leonard: all that jazz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Most notable for Leonard, BFA '47, is the fact that the White House came calling for his photographs of jazz musicians dating back to the 1930s.
Leonard has visited the Athens campus several times since picking up a 1992 Medal of Merit Award from the Alumni Association.
Leonard has begun work on his third book, a photographic look at New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz and his home for the past four years.
www.ohiou.edu /ohiotoday/spring97/jazz.htm   (234 words)

  
 DP Interviews - Leonard Herman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Leonard Herman is the author of the book Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of Videogames.
The book is a marvelous and detailed account of the electronic gaming industry from its birth to present.
Now in its third edition, Leonard has increased the size of the book, added new chapters to reflect the industry since 1996, and added loads of pictures and appendices (we especially like the publication appendix, with pictures and timelines for all of the electronic gaming publications).
www.digitpress.com /archives/interview_herman.htm   (1081 words)

  
 Bruce Museum : Current Exhibit
Jazz Greats: Herman Leonard Photographs from the Bruce Museum Collection features images by a photographer whose passion for jazz drew him to New York City’s swinging clubs of Broadway, 52nd Street and Harlem beginning in the late 1940s.
Herman Leonard’s background in photography included a year’s apprenticeship in 1947 with the famed portraitist Yousuf Karsh, with whom he gained invaluable experience photographing the likes of Albert Einstein, President Harry S. Truman, and Clark Gable.
Upon returning, Leonard moved to Paris to assume the position as chief photographer for the French music label Barclay Records.
www.brucemuseum.org /exhibitions/exhibit.php?exhibit=81   (582 words)

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