David Amram

  • Sara Fishko – The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (2016)

    2011-2020DocumentaryMusicalSara FishkoUSA

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    About the Jazz Loft Project

    In January 1955 W. Eugene Smith, a celebrated photographer at Life magazine whose quarrels with his editors were legendary, quit his longtime well-paying job at the magazine. He was thirty-six. He was ambitious, quixotic, in search of greater freedom and artistic license. He turned his attention to a freelance assignment in Pittsburgh, a three-week job that turned into a four-year obsession and in the end, remained unfinished. In a letter to Ansel Adams, Smith described it as a “debacle” and an “embarrassment.”Read More »

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