Herb Snitzer

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Herb Snitzer (* 1932 ) is an American jazz photographer.

Snitzer graduated from Goddard College with masters and the Philadelphia College of Art. Upon graduation in 1957, he moved to New York City. He has been active as a jazz photographer since the 1950s. His photos have been published in Down Beat , Metronome , Life Magazine , Look, the Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, Times, New York Times, Herald Tribune and on numerous LP and CD covers , among others . He was a photographer and associate editor for the jazz magazine Metronome.

He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida and is artist in residence at Eckerd College.

In addition to Florida, Snitzer had exhibitions in St. Louis, California (Los Angeles), Boston, Oregon, and Pittsburgh. His photos are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Museum of African American History, among others. In addition to jazz musicians such as Nina Simone (whom he traveled with for 30 years), Miles Davis , John Coltrane , Dizzy Gillespie , Count Basie and Louis Armstrong , he also photographed activists of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

In 2012 he received the Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Photography from the JJA Jazz Awards. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP.

Fonts

  • Glorious days and nights. A Jazz memoir, University of Mississippi Press 2011
  • Jazz: A Visual Journey, Notables Publishing 1985
  • Photographs from the Last Years of Metronome, Sheldon Art Gallery 2008
  • Reprise, The Extraordinary Revival of Early Music, Little Brown
  • Today Is For Children, The Macmillan Company
  • Living @ Summerhill, The Macmillan Company
  • with Marya Mannes: The New York I Know, Lippincott

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JJA Jazz Awards 2012
personal data
SURNAME Snitzer, Herb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1932