The Jazz Loft Project: W Eugene Smith in New York City July 10, 2011

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and Duke's Center for Documentary Studies present "The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965," an exhibition of photographs and recordings of some of the jazz world's greatest legends. In the late 1950s, W. Eugene Smith lived and worked in a New York City loft building with an amazing list of visitors--jazz musicians, filmmakers, writers and artists. In photographs and audio recordings, he documented an era and rare moments with people such as Thelonious Monk, Zoot Simms, Norman Mailer and Salvador Dali, among others.