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Interview: Herb Snitzer (Pt. 1)

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Marc Myers
Mar 12, 2012
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What makes a jazz photographer tick? For years I have admired Herb Snitzer's unorthodox images of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lester Young and many others. Herb's photos always have this "how did he take that?" quality, leaving you both baffled by their execution and grateful for his daring, since they expos…

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