Jazz People: New Orleans Portraits by Lee Friedlander, opening at the Newcomb Art Gallery August 24.

Sweet Emma Barrett at Luthjen’s, 1958

*All are gelatin silver prints

*Photography by Lee Friedlander.  Courtesy of the William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz

(New Orleans, LA) From August 24 to October 9, 2011, the Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University presents Jazz People: New Orleans Portraits by Lee Friedlander, curated by Newcomb Art Department faculty member Stephen Hilger.  The works in Jazz People, thirty-nine black and white photographs from New Orleans in the 1950s and
1960s, are drawn primarily from Tulane's William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz with additional images on loan from the collection of Allan and Sandra Jaffe, the founders of Preservation Hall.  "Lee's photographs embody a visual encyclopedia of
early New Orleans jazz that is unprecedented," stated Preservation Hall Creative Director Ben Jaffe. As Allan and Sandra's son, the young Jaffe grew up witnessing performances by many of the legendary musicians depicted in Friedlander's work.

Kid Thomas Valentine, 1957

*All are gelatin silver prints

*Photography by Lee Friedlander.  Courtesy of the William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz