Lot 290
290 •(BURT GOLDBLATT--JAZZ MUSICIANS)
An archive with 120 dynamic photographs by Goldblatt, a renowned New York jazz photographer and album designer.
Encompassing a stylistic range of hard-hitting portraits, with intimate studio recordings, gritty and energetic nightclub performances, and cool practice sessions, as well as a group of artfully angled and composed images, evocative of the genre's free-form nature. Portraying Jazz and Blues legends, from Johnny Hodges, Milt Hinton, Gene Krupa, Ray Vance, Chris Connor, and Dickie Wells; to Billy Strayhorn, Sy Oliver, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, and John Lee Hooker. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with a variety of Goldblatt's hand stamps, and some with notations or affixed labels on verso. 1950s-70s
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