Ted Williams first heard jazz on the radio as a youngster in the 1930s in Wichita, Kansas. The sounds of Earl Hines, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway broadcast from Chicago's legendary Grand Terrace Ballroom inspired him. In the late 1940s, Williams merged his love of music and photography and moved to Chicago where he captured unguarded photographic studies of some of the era's greatest jazz musicians.
Williams’s work appeared in major international publications, including Time, Newsweek, Look, Playboy and Ebony. His coverage of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival landed him a spectacular 21-page layout in DownBeat magazine. Williams was active on the jazz scene from the late 1940s until the late 1970s. He photographed many of the greats in jazz, including Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong.
Williams’s historic archive runs to more than 100,000 images and comprises perhaps the most intimate and complete collection of jazz’s greatest musicians at work, rest and play.
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(Biography provided by International Fine Arts Consortium – IFAC Arts)
Jerry Schatzberg - Brodovitch Times Square, Photography 1954, Printed After
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 11" x 14" $6,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP 16" x 20" $8,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP 20" x 24" $10,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP 30" x 40" $16,000.00 Edition of...
Silver Gelatin
Jerry Schatzberg - Subway Reportage, Photography 1954, Printed After
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 11" x 14" $6,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP 16" x 20" $8,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP 20" x 24" $10,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP 30" x 40" $16,000.00 Edition of ...
Silver Gelatin
Jerry Schatzberg - Anne St. Marie and Bob Smith, 1958, Printed After
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Anne St. Marie and Bob Smith, Vogue Barge" Available Sizes: 11" x 14" $6,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP 16" x 20" $8,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP 20" x 24" $10,000.00 Edition of...
Silver Gelatin
Jerry Schatzberg - Wall Street, Photography 1958, Printed After
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 11" x 14" $6,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP 16" x 20" $8,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP 20" x 24" $10,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP 30" x 40" $16,500.00 Edition of ...
Silver Gelatin
Ted Williams - Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field, IL, 1964, Printed After
By Ted Williams
Located in Greenwich, CT
Title: Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field, Chicago Estate-stamped, gelatin-print silver Crowds at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, ...
Silver Gelatin
Jerry Schatzberg - Penn Station, Conductor, Photography 1962, Printed After
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 11" x 14" $6,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP 16" x 20" $8,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP 20" x 24" $10,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP 30" x 40" $16,000.00 Edition of ...
Silver Gelatin
Observant Father, 1949, Chicago, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Street photography was Art's true passion. He never went anywhere without his camera so he could capture moments like this one - a priest on a Chicago street "observing" one of his parishioners. Art saw humor in everyday life catching moments that the casual observer probably would have missed. Art Shay Observant Father, 1949 vintage silver gelatin print...
Silver Gelatin
Italy 1956 - Boy reading a newspaper
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print from 1998, photo by Erich Andres, 1956, Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of t...
Silver Gelatin
Bob Dylan reading Herald Tribune
By Daniel Kramer
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Silver Gelatin
Woman Reading - Dislocated Series
By Ken Heyman
Located in Toronto, ON
11" x 14" Unframed Silver Gelatin Print Hand Signed by Ken Heyman From the Dislocated series
Silver Gelatin
Man With A Pistol, Chicago, 1965
By John Simmons
Located in Santa Monica, CA
John Simmons Man With A Pistol, Chicago, 1965 Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Gelatin Silver Print Image: 8 3/4"x12 7/8", Paper 11"x14", Matte...
Silver Gelatin
Verticalità, New York (1955) - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
By Fabrizio La Torre
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition This photo was made in 1955, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (fram...
Archival Pigment
