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Pub Date 12/9/2025
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| | | Lisette Model: The Jazz PicturesBy Audrey Sands. Text by Langston Hughes, Loren Schoenberg.
 Shelved during the McCarthy era, Model's photographs of jazz musicians—together with a text by Langston Hughes—are finally published for the first time Street photographer Lisette Model spent more than 10 years documenting Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Percy Heath, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and countless other luminaries of America's jazz scene. From the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival to nightclub shows and raucous afterparties in cramped apartments, Model's images are effusive and full of empathy, celebrating jazz at a time when the genre was under increasing political and cultural scrutiny.
During the 1950s, the New York Photo League was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee for purported connections to the Communist Party. Model was interviewed by the FBI and eventually placed on its National Security Watchlist. This mounting political pressure led publishers and funders to rescind support of Model, and ultimately caused her to shelve the book dedicated to her jazz pictures, which was to feature an essay by Langston Hughes.
Now, this clothbound book finally realizes Model's self-censored project, providing a fresh look at familiar faces who today signify the fight for freedom, equality and creative expression. Alongside Hughes' original essay, texts by author Audrey Sands and saxophonist Loren Schoenberg underscore the importance of this series and the revelatory insight it shines on jazz music, both onstage and off.
Lisette Model (1901–83) was born in Vienna. She moved to Manhattan in 1938 and two years later Model hosted her first solo exhibition with the New York Photo League. Following the group's dismantlement by the FBI, Model transitioned to teaching. Her most notable pupils included Diane Arbus, Helen Gee and John Gossage.
Louis Armsrong on Tour Bus, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 5-7, 1956 © Lisette Model Foundation, courtesy of Eakins Press Foundation/Lisette Model fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and ArchivesPRAISE AND REVIEWSThe Atlantic David A. Graham America is many things—joy and pain, freedom and repression—and Model’s photos of jazz musicians and their audiences captured the full range. The Wire Andy Hamilton [A] remarkable collection of art photography, with excellent new texts by Audrey Sands and Loren Schoenberg. The New York Times Andrew Dickson Compared to her earlier street photography, often so hard-edged, these pictures have an exuberant sense of pleasure. The Wall Street Journal Angelina Torre [Lisette Model's] jazz photographs are intimate depictions of the genre’s giants. The Library Journal Michael Dashkin A trove of her negatives and prints on the jazz theme—unpublished in her lifetime and only discovered after her death—is a revelation, showing how widely she explored jazz and American culture. The Wall Street Journal Peter Saenger The black-and-white photos resemble fresh souvenirs from a trip back in time 70 years... The Globe and the Mail Nathalie Atkinson [Some] of her 1,800 revealing portraits of jazz luminaries (such as Duke Ellington at the Newport Jazz Festival) are at last united. The Boston Globe Mark Feeney Jazz Pictures' is an exceedingly handsome piece of bookmaking. Air Mail Carolina de Armas A new book titled 'The Jazz Pictures' gathers together [a] remarkable archive and includes an introduction by Langston Hughes, originally written for a book Model hoped would be published in her lifetime but wasn’t. Jazz Times A.D. Amorosi Remembering that Model was the woman who taught historic photographers Diane Arbus and Larry Fink to look, unblinkingly, at life’s most unadulterated fare, be it bare and bleak or perfect and pure, we get a deep and genuine kick (not always a fun one) at what it is to be gloriously unvarnished and to turn that into an aesthetic. Staring at the pages of 'Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures' — each one starker than the last — is akin to getting lost in the music, only louder. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/22/2026 Thursday, January 22, from 6–7:30 PM, NYC's International Center of Photography presents Audrey Sands, Richard L. Menschel Associate Curator of Photography at Harvard Art Museums and author of Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures, in conversation with Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions at ICP, followed by a signing in the ICP Shop. This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and include access to ICP’s galleries.
continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/19/2025 Featured photograph—of jazz legends Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton performing at Basin Street East, New York City (c. 1954–55)—is reproduced from the remarkable new release, Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures. A legendary collection of photographs made over a decade during which the photographer, a Jewish Austrian woman who had emigrated to America to escape the Nazis, immersed herself in America’s sizzling, mostly Black jazz scene, these pictures were originally slated to be published alongside an essay by Langston Hughes. When the FBI placed Model on its National Security Watchlist due to her purported connections to the Communist Party, the project was shelved. And now, thanks to the exacting scholarship of photography historian Audrey Sands, this project has been fully brought to light for the first time. Published by Eakins Press Foundation, the critically-acclaimed photobook features more than 300 duotone images and 25 color reproductions, alongside Langston Hughes’ unpublished essay and original texts by Sands and jazz historian Loren Schoenberg. Clothbound with tipped on cover image, it’s one of our top Staff Picks for the Photo Fanatic, 2025.
Photograph © Lisette Model Foundation, courtesy of Eakins Press Foundation/Lisette Model fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives continue to blog | |  | Eakins Press FoundationISBN: 9780871301024
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USD $40.00 | CAD $54.5Pub Date: 10/12/2021
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