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| p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Review of new Jazz photo book by Francis Wolff | |
Reviewed in Jazz Times
Posed shot of Wayne Shorter (album cover) for the cover of the book but most of the shots will be in-session candids.
Deeply intentional photography
https://jazztimes.com/reviews/books/francis-wolff-jazz-images-elemental/
-Denny
"There are times I have watched the artful dissolves in Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and wished there was a way to hang them on museum walls as paintings in motion. Jazz can have a similar effect in that the notes of the music virtually coruscate the air, lighting it up as we listen: the glorious strobe of rhythm.
With this book of Francis Wolff photographs, those waves of sound are all but detectable to the naked eye, the seeing soul. Wolff, of course, famously co-founded Blue Note with Alfred Lion and was the amateur shutterbug—turned Walker Evans-level virtuoso—of the partnership." ... and more
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