Herman Leonard
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| A famous photograph by [[Herman Leonard]] of [[Dexter Gordon]] smoking a [[cigarette]] during a set at the [[Royal Roost]] in [[New York City]] in [[1948]][http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Herman%20Leonard%20dexter%20gordon&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi] is one of the more [[iconic]] images in the [[history of jazz]]. | A famous photograph by [[Herman Leonard]] of [[Dexter Gordon]] smoking a [[cigarette]] during a set at the [[Royal Roost]] in [[New York City]] in [[1948]][http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Herman%20Leonard%20dexter%20gordon&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi] is one of the more [[iconic]] images in the [[history of jazz]]. | ||
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Herman Leonard (born 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American photographer known for his unique images of jazz icons. Leonard earned a BFA in photography in 1947 from Ohio University, although his college career was interrupted by a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during World War II. In the military he served as a medical technician in Burma, while attached to Chiang Kai Shek's Chinese troops fighting the Japanese.
In 1948 Leonard opened his first studio in New York's Greenwich Village. Working free-lance for various magazines, he spent his evenings at the Royal Roost and then Birdland where he photographed the ongoing roster of jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and others. The number of shots possible at a time were limited. Using glass negatives at this time, Leonard increased the sensitivity of the plates by exposing them to Mercury vapor.
A famous photograph by Herman Leonard of Dexter Gordon smoking a cigarette during a set at the Royal Roost in New York City in 1948[1] is one of the more iconic images in the history of jazz.
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