{"product_id":"the-jazz-loft-project-photographs-and-tapes-of-w-eugene-smith-from-821-sixth-avenue-1957-1965-hardcover","title":"The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eW. Eugene Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eSam Stephenson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReissue of an acclaimed collection of images from photographer W. Eugene Smith's time in a New York City loft among jazz musicians.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1957, Eugene Smith walked away from his longtime job at \u003ci\u003eLife \u003c\/i\u003eand the home he shared with his wife and four children to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City's wholesale flower district. The loft was the late-night haunt of musicians, including some of the biggest names in jazz--Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk among them. Here, from 1957 to 1965, he made nearly 40,000 photographs and approximately 4,000 hours of recordings of musicians. Smith found solace in the chaotic, somnambulistic world of the loft and its artists, and he turned his documentary impulses away from work on his major Pittsburg photo essay and toward his new surroundings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Smith's Jazz Loft Project has been legendary in the worlds of art, photography, and music for more than forty years, but until the publication of this book, no one had seen his extraordinary photographs or read any of the firsthand accounts of those who were there and lived to tell the tales. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. Eugene Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (1918-78) was an American photographer who worked for \u003ci\u003eLife \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1939 to 1954 and thereafter was affiliated with the Magnum photo agency. Several posthumous overviews of Smith's work have been published, including\u003ci\u003e The Big Book\u003c\/i\u003e, a retrospective of his work as he designed it, and a biography, \u003ci\u003eLet Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e, by Ben Maddow. \u003cb\u003eSam Stephenson\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer from North Carolina now based in College Station, TX. He is the author of a biography of Smith, \u003ci\u003eGene Smith's Sink\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eDream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Loft Project: The Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the ghostwriter of \u003ci\u003eDon't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Yo\u003c\/i\u003eu, a forthcoming memoir by Lucinda Williams. In 2019, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in progress about the band Jane's Addiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 10.54 x 9.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772378775840,"sku":"9780226824840","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6044b17ef53dc8b857e067f8393ed8eb.webp?v=1780404338","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-jazz-loft-project-photographs-and-tapes-of-w-eugene-smith-from-821-sixth-avenue-1957-1965-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}