In 1957, New York photojournalist Jerry Dantzic spent time with the iconic singer Billie Holiday during a two-week run of performances at the Newark, New Jersey, nightclub Sugar Hill. The resulting images offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Billie with her family, friends and her pet chiuhuaha, Pepe; playing with her godchild (son of her autobiography’s co-author, William Dufty); washing dishes at the Duftys’ home; walking the streets of Newark; in her hotel room; waiting backstage or having a drink in front of the stage; and performing. The years and the struggles seem to vanish when she sings: her face lights up. Later that year, Dantzic photographed her at the second New York Jazz Festival at Randall’s Island, in colour. Only a handful of the photographs in this book have ever been published.
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A vivid, intimate and compelling photographic portrait of Billie Holiday, the epitome of the jazz singer and one of 20th-century music’s most iconic figures, published here for the first time.
'A sleek coffee table book of photographs, many never seen before … a reminder that between the fame and the infamy, normal life happens. It’s the everyday nature of these black-and-white photographs that makes them so unusual' - The Washington Post
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An incomparable portrait of Billie Holiday, the archetypal jazz singer and one of 20th-century music’s most iconic figures, showing her both in private and performing
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780500544655
Publisert
2017-03-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Vekt
1300 gr
Høyde
305 mm
Bredde
230 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
144
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