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Interview: Herb Snitzer (Pt. 2)

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Marc Myers
Mar 13, 2012
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To wind up with exciting candid photos of jazz musicians, photographer Herb Snitzer [pictured] had to be part big-game hunter and part button-pushing bully. On assignment, Herb developed tricks for making himself invisible and stealthily moving in on subjects. But he also had to know when to prod a little to stir up a musician's human side. To produce t…

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