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Herman Leonard, 1923-2010
21 November 2010
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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...