<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/42154f90-a88e-4ee3-b71f-5c2c6bf00069/48EFB846-8262-4A04-8E70-E168A77BC05F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/1775" href="http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/1775" style="font-size: 11px;">news.columbia.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/1775"><H2 class="title">Professor Curates Retrospective of Legendary Jazz Photographer</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/1775"><P class="rtecenter"><EM>Special from </EM><A href="http://news.columbia.edu/record">The Record</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/1775"><P>"I did not set this up," insisted Herman Leonard, a photographer best known for the intimate, smoke-hued black-and-white portraits he took of jazz musicians in the 1940s and ’50s.</p> <TABLE width="300" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><A href="http://news.columbia.edu/jazz-photography#"><IMG width="300" height="300" border="0" src="http://news.columbia.edu/files_columbianews/imce_shared/smoke-filled-jazz-era300.png" alt="Lester Young's Hat, 1948 [Image credit: Herman Leonard Photography, LLC]" /></A></TD></TR><TR><TD><STRONG>Lester Young's Hat, 1948. <A href="http://news.columbia.edu/jazz-photography#">Click</A> to view a slideshow of Leonard's photos.</STRONG> <DIV class="rteright"><EM>Image credit: Herman Leonard Photography, LLC <A href="http://www.hermanleonard.com" target="_blank">www.hermanleonard.com</A></EM></DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P>Leonard, who has been called the dean of jazz photographers, was speaking at a discussion, sponsored by Columbia's <A href="http://www.jazz.columbia.edu/" target="_blank">Center for Jazz Studies</A> on Oct. 19, that looked at his work as art and historical record. He was referring to a still life he shot in 1948 called <EM>Lester Young's Hat</EM>, which shows a burning cigarette balanced atop an open soda bottle and the round porkpie hat of tenor saxophonist Lester Young hanging on a briefcase full of sheet music.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/48EFB846-8262-4A04-8E70-E168A77BC05F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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