Ainsworth, Alan John

Sight readings. Photographers and American jazz, 1900-1960

by Ainsworth, Alan John

fromBCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research

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This book explores the work of a wide range of American photographers attracted to jazz during the period 1900-60. It includes discussions of jazz as a visual subject, its attraction to different types of photographers and offers analysis of why and how they approached the subje…

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