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Jazz photographer William Claxton dies
Monday 13 October 2008
William Claxton, 80, died of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles early on Saturday. The photographer was best known for capturing unique images of the greatest jazz musicians of the 1950s, from Stan Getz to Duke Ellington.
Monday 13 October 2008
By AFP (text)William Claxton, a photographer who specialized in immortalizing jazz musicians of the 1950s, has died at the age of 80, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
Citing his wife, the newspaper said Claxton had died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles early Saturday.
Claxton also became well known for his work with jazz celebrities such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Torme, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Stan Getz. He also photographed Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen.
Claxton called photography "jazz for the eyes" and tried to capture the often dynamic tension between the artist, the instrument and the music, the paper noted.
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