2002, ISBN: ce7e3a4fc587edd9be53e8cf463bfaf0

[PU: Powerhouse Books, New York NY,], PHOTOGRAPHY - // 74921, Folio hardcover, 153pp., monochrome illustrations. Black boards, no dustwrapper. Minor wear; near fine. Postage quoted is for… More...

[PU: Powerhouse Books, New York NY,], PHOTOGRAPHY - // 74921, Folio hardcover, 153pp., monochrome illustrations. Black boards, no dustwrapper. Minor wear; near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. 'In the early 1950s, while still in school at UCLA, Claxton began photographing musicians on the flourishing Los Angeles jazz scene. His subsequent history in jazz is well known. While still a student, he founded the record company Pacific Jazz with producer Richard Bock and went on to photograph (and often design) hundreds of album covers. His quintessential images of jazz musicians appeared in scores of magazines and have been shown in galleries and museums around the world. The body of work he created chronicles a whole trajectory of postwar American jazz, from its early years to bebop, West Coast Cool, and the flowering of free-form improvisation. When shooting in Los Angeles and San Francisco, he often photographed his subjects outside, bringing an intimacy to his images that said as much about his friendships with these artists as it did about the California light. He brought this same fresh approach to his photographs of musicians in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and other cities around the country. Less well known is the fact that throughout his career Claxton has just as assiduously photographed people from all walks of life, both the famous - writers, actors, directors, composers, artists, and fashion designers - and the family and friends to whom he has been closest. Often there has been little distinction between the two. In a sense, he has always been a kind of neighborhood photographer, though later his neighborhood became the world. Many of the photographs shown in the gathering of pictures featured here - whether shot in a recording studio, on a Hollywood sound stage, or in the living rooms of his subjects - were taken within a few miles of Claxton's home at the top of Benedict Canyon above Beverly Hills. A Pasadena kid who went to high school in Glendale, Claxton has been an insider in the world of L.A. art and entertainment for most of his adult life. He has always moved easily between jazz clubs, recording studios, the art scene, film sets, and the homes of the artists who became his friends. Above all, this work is about friendship. .Style? It's all they've got. And if this book is first and foremost about friendship, it is next about style. Although genuinely too modest to admit it, Claxton is universally considered as gracious, funny, elegant, and stylish a man as you are likely to meet, and with enough charm and wit to have been at home in any Noel Coward play. He has always admired these qualities in others, especially in those who seem to have them effortlessly and in abundance, and it shows in the photographs - in the beauty of Gloria Swanson shopping with Claxton in an antique store, on the set with the eternally hip Steve McQueen, or in the image of a dapper Vincent Price at home with his renowned collection of art' (Garrett White).<

2003, ISBN: ce7e3a4fc587edd9be53e8cf463bfaf0

Powerhouse Books, New York 2003. 36.0 x 27.0cms, c 160pp. c 150 b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper Claxton took these photographs of Hollywood stars and jazz musicians over 5… More...

Powerhouse Books, New York 2003. 36.0 x 27.0cms, c 160pp. c 150 b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper Claxton took these photographs of Hollywood stars and jazz musicians over 50 years., Powerhouse Books, New York 2003, 0<

2002, ISBN: ce7e3a4fc587edd9be53e8cf463bfaf0

Hardcover

[SC: 55.65], [PU: New York: PowerHouse Books, [2002].], PHOTOGRAPHY WILLIAM CLAXTON, Jacket, folio. pp. 153, [7]. profusely illus. in b/w. (majority full-page). bds. dw. (lamnant peeling … More...

[SC: 55.65], [PU: New York: PowerHouse Books, [2002].], PHOTOGRAPHY WILLIAM CLAXTON, Jacket, folio. pp. 153, [7]. profusely illus. in b/w. (majority full-page). bds. dw. (lamnant peeling a bit at lower back edge). First Edition.<