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In 1985, a statue of Billie Holiday was erected in Baltimore; the statue was completed in 1993 with additional panels of images inspired by her seminal song "Strange Fruit". The Billie Holiday Monument is located at Pennsylvania and West Lafayette avenues in Baltimore's Upton neighborhood.
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- A Photographic Journey in Search of His Father
- Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill
- Covering All The Angles
- Assembling An Archive from A Lifetime of Work
Always a man on the move, by the late 1990s the elder Dantzic was juggling his award-winning photography with adjunct teaching at Long Island University, in Brooklyn, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Grayson hadn’t been paying a lot of attention to his father’s life and work, when his health suddenly became a huge issue. “On...
In 1957, Decca Records hired Jerry Dantzic as a freelancer, to photograph Billie Holiday during her Easter Week engagement at the Newark, New Jersey club, Sugar Hill. He had unfettered access to photograph the singer at the club, on the streets of Newark and in her hotel room. He also captured intimate moments during Holiday’s visit with Bill Dufty...
When photographing Holiday, Dantzic was likely working with two Leica M3 series cameras (Leica M3s) and three lensesof 35mm, 50mm, and 300mm focal lengths. He was also working without a flash. “Looking through the work, it’s all shot with available light,” says Grayson. The pictorial effect is rich with blacks and luminous highlights, particularly ...
While the elder Dantzic had set up his files using a semi-numerical system, with contact sheets and negatives in glassine envelopes, a few key pictures were not discovered until Grayson had dug deep into his archives. Several color portraits of Billie were unearthed from various 35mm slide boxes, and a sleeve of medium format transparencies was fou...
Apr 7, 2015 · Billie Holiday was born on 7 April 1915. To mark what would have been the 100th birthday of one of the greatest singers in music history, here are images of her life Mee-Lai Stone and...
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