Herman Leonard, a photographer with a commanding mastery of light whose dramatic and expressive nightclub portraits of jazz artists starting in the 1940s helped shape and promote jazz's nocturnal ...

WASHINGTON – When Herman Leonard began taking pictures at New York jazz clubs in the 1940s, he used two strobe lights because that’s all he could afford. He had a bulky 4-by-5 Speed Graphic camera, ...

Ogden Museum of Southern Art has announced its new exhibition Herman Leonard: Images of Jazz, presented by The Helis Foundation. Opening Jan. 29, the exhibition features 30 selenium-toned silver ...

Herman Leonard's life was an example of the phrase "everything in its time." Shortly after earning a fine-arts degree in photography in the late 1940s, Leonard was making a living as a commercial ...

Herman Leonard, a celebrated photographer whose iconic images of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Frank Sinatra documented one of the most creative eras of jazz from the late 1940's through the ...

Herman Leonard-- the photographer who captured some of the best-known images of jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis -- answered a knock at the door of ...

The scene was sealed forever on film by Leonard, now 86, who captured the odd, intimate moments in the lives of jazz greats. In the last half of the 20th century, he documented the most fertile period ...

Many of the images made by photographer Herman Leonard, who died Aug. 14 at 87, live in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. But even more impressive is their permanence in our ...

Music and photography lovers are remembering the iconic jazz photographer Herman Leonard. He moved to Los Angeles from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina damaged his home and studio there. Leonard ...

Jazz photographer Herman Leonard has passed away. Leonard is considered to be one of the great midcentury jazz-scene photographers, capturing Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Frank ...