Jazz photographer Jamie Hodgson, 76
Posted: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 6:50 pmJamie Hodgson, the photographer whose haunting images of jazz musicians helped immortalise its greatest stars, has died at the age of 76.
The former fashion photographer, who died of cancer on Sunday, took his stark black and white pictures of musicians including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong during the 1950s and 1960s.
His pictures, which amounted to a hall of fame of American jazz greats from Dizzy Gillespie to Ray Charles, was all the more remarkable given that Hodgson took none of them in the United States. The shots were all taken by the photographer, a jazz fanatic, during live performances by the stars in London. …
He also set up the Kinnerton Street Studio in Knightsbridge where he made his living photographing models such as Jean Shrimpton, Tania Mallet and the wife of the former Conservative leader Michael Howard, then known as Sandra Paul. … Read full obituary
