Ted Williams (photographer)
Ted Williams (* 1925 in Texas ; † October 13, 2009 ) was an American photographer who is primarily remembered as a jazz photographer .
Live and act
Williams listened to jazz on the radio as a teenager in Wichita, Kansas . In the 1940s he attended numerous concerts in Chicago's Grand Terrace Ballroom and began to document them. After military service, he studied at The Institute of Design in Chicago with Aaron Siskind , Harry Callahan , Buckminster Fuller and Art Siegel .
He has been documenting the jazz scene since the late 1940s. His photographs of musicians adorned the titles of records on labels like Vee-Jay and Mercury ; they appeared in magazines such as Newsweek , Time , Ebony and Playboy . In 1958, the music magazine Down Beat published a 21-page photo documentary by Williams about the Newport Jazz Festival ; numerous covers of this magazine were based on photos of him. In 1966 he also photographed soldiers in the Vietnam War , sporting events such as baseball tournaments or the 1968 Olympic Games , numerous demonstrations of the American civil rights movement and other political events. He spent the period between 1967 and 1973 mainly in Mexico , where he also documented everyday life. His work was exhibited in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in 1968 as part of the Cultural Olympiad . Since the 1970s he lived and worked in Los Angeles .
In 1996 Williams showed the solo exhibition Jazz: A Chicago Groove at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. His work was also featured in the Images of Music: Classical Through Rock exhibition at the SOHO Triad Fine Arts Gallery in New York City. Williams photographs have also been acquired by institutions such as the Library of Congress .
Fonts
- Jazz: The Iconic Images of Ted Williams ACC Publishing, Suffolk 2016; ISBN 978-1851498277
Web links
- This is our music: 20th-century US jazz greats - in pictures (Guardian)
- Hearing Music in Photos of Jazz Giants (New York Times) August 16, 2016
- Sentimental Moods: The Photographs of Ted Williams
- Preserving Ted Williams' Photographs (Rifftides)
- Ted Williams at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Obituary JazzTimes
- ↑ a b portrait (CTSimages)
- ^ Farley Photograph Collection: Ted Williams
- ↑ Mexico series
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Williams, Ted |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer (jazz) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 2009 |