Jazz Loft: W Eugene Smith, NYC, 1957-1965 September 19, 2010

In the late 1950s, famous photo-documentarian W. Eugene Smith lived and worked in a NYC loft building with an amazing list of inhabitants -- famous jazz musicians, filmmakers, writers, and artists. In photographs and audio recordings, he documented an era and rare views of people such as Thelonious Monk, Zoot Simms, Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus, and Salvador Dali, presented here in photographs, work prints, videos, and audio listening stations. The exhibition is organized by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.