{"id":949,"date":"2010-03-21T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=949"},"modified":"2010-03-21T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T20:00:17","slug":"jazz-loft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Loft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great pictures, great atmosphere in an audio slide show on the NY Times site not to be missed W Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft Project.<\/a> There is also a short introduction to it by Jeffrey Scales elsewhere on the NYT site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was Smith’s largest project\u00a0 – a thousand or more rolls of film and countless hours of audio which took seven years for Sam Stephenson to research, producing a book<\/a>, a radio series<\/a> (I’m listening to the introduction as I write) and an exhibition, currently\u00a0 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center until May 22, 2010 and later at the Chicago Cultural Center (July 17-September 25, 2010), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (February 3-May 22, 2011), the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego (May 19-Oct. 7, 2012), and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona (late 2012, early 2013).<\/p>\n

It’s a shame that at the moment there are no plans for this exhibition to come to Europe.<\/p>\n

Smith was one of the first photographers I wrote about on line, and in many ways a legend in photography, not least for almost managing to bankrupt Magnum. He was also in some ways a very American photographer, not least because it was the attitudes in the US to press photography that his career was very much a battle against. In Europe at the time things were rather less ossified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great pictures, great atmosphere in an audio slide show on the NY Times site not to be missed W Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft Project. There is also a short introduction to it by Jeffrey Scales elsewhere on the NYT site. This was Smith’s largest project\u00a0 – a thousand or more rolls of film … Continue reading Jazz Loft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}