Equipped with a bulky Speed Graphic camera, [William] Gottlieb, a young columnist for the Washington Post and later a writer for Down Beat magazine, photographed jazz musicians and performers, capturing classic images that are well-known today. Gottlieb photographed the jazz greats from 1938 to 1948.
A set of these iconic images, part of the Library of Congress William P. Gottlieb Collection, has been uploaded to Flickr, the image and video hosting website at this location. The Library of Congress will continue to add more photos each month, until all 1,600 from the collection are included.
The initial 200 [219 to be precise] images show the photographs alongside Gottlieb’s personal recollections that were published in his book "The Golden Age of Jazz." The Music Division has loaded the original, un-cropped photographs on Flickr. Gottlieb’s cropped versions of the images can be viewed in the Library’s Performing Arts Encyclopedia, giving viewers a unique insight into Gottlieb’s creative process.
The photographs in the Library’s William P. Gottlieb Collection entered into the public domain on Feb. 16, 2010, in accordance with Gottlieb’s wishes. Gottlieb died at age 89 in 2006. Although copyright restrictions are lifted, rights of privacy and publicity may apply. Users of photographs in the Gottlieb collection are responsible for clearing any privacy or publicity rights associated with the use of the images.
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