Collection:LPB

Genre: Documentary

Place Covered: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, New York City, New York

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 1997-08-21

Duration: 00:26:53

Subjects: Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010 | Photographers | Arts | JAZZ | Music | Karsh, Yousuf, 1908-2002

Contributors:

• Bennett, Tony Narrator
• Laudun, Tika Producer
• Godoy, Al Writer
• Fortenberry, Rex Q. Photographer
• Laudun, Tika Photographer
• Leonard, Herman Interviewee
• Jones, Quincy Interviewee
• Leonard, Shana Interviewee
• Hasse, John Interviewee
• Pailet, Joshua Mann Interviewee
• Bennett, Tony Interviewee

A 1997 documentary chronicling the life and career of photographer Herman Leonard, who is best known for his portraits of jazz musicians in the 1940s and 1950s. This documentary covers: his early life, including his service as an Army medic in World War II; his apprenticeship with photographer Yousuf Karsh; his photography career in New York, Paris, and around the world; his hobby of shooting portraits of jazz musicians in New York nightclubs in the 1940s and 1950s; the resurrection of his career following a gallery exhibit of his jazz photographs; the Smithsonian’s acquisition of sixty of his prints for their permanent collection; and his move to New Orleans. This documentary includes interviews with Leonard and his friends, Quincy Jones and Tony Bennett. Narrator: Tony Bennett