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Herman had imported this hanging vine from New Orleans so I thought would make a good frame around him for his portrait.
“He was a master of jazz, except his instrument was a camera,” K. Heather Pinson, the author of “The Jazz Image”, a study of Mr. Leonard’s work, said. “His photographs are probably the single best visual representation of what jazz sounds like.” Spare and stylized, Mr. Leonard’s work captured a world of shadow, silver and smoke: dark interiors, gleaming microphones and, threading through it all, cigarette smoke that leaped and twined as if it were an incarnation of the music itself.