Tamron
Blue Earth
Glazer's Camera
Displaying items by tag: Herman Leonard

Herman Leonard, 1923-2010

21 November 2010
Published in Passages

Postwar jazz photographer Herman Leonard died of leukemia in August at the age of 87.

Born in Allentown, Pa., in 1923, Leonard took his first photographs as a child and later studied photography at Ohio University. After school, he apprenticed for Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh before opening his own New York City studio at age 25.Although Leonard shot many portraits in New York and Paris between...