During your 35-year career in the world of jazz, you have documented over 600 recording projects and photographed more than 220 magazine covers. It is an extraordinary body of work. What sparked this obsession, and how did you approach creating it? It all goes back to 1974. A school friend offered me tickets to see Thelonious Monk with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers at Carnegie Hall. What I witnessed was not just music – it was a revelation. The intensity, the sophistication… I immediately realised that I was experiencing the pinnacle of human creativity. That evening, I understood that I had to learn everything I could about this art form. After college and a career in alpine skiing, I returned to New York with my wife, Dena, in 1990. This time, I was not there to photograph the broader world of music, but to focus specifically on jazz. By […]
Jimmy Katz – Lifetime Achievement Award
At the Feet of Giants: A Photographer’s 35-Year Mission to Document an Art Form
