William Claxton Photography

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Photographer William Claxton Dies at 80
Published 10/13/2008 at OH NO!!
... Horne Judy Garland Shirley Maclaine Steve McQueen Dennis Hopper Spike Lee Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello Benicio Del Toro Richard Lewis Andy Dick Martin Short Lily Tomlin Jon Stewart picture source source I know most people won't give a shit, but he took a ...

William Claxton, 1928-2008
Published 10/13/2008 at Rifftides
... world. He did incomparable work not only in jazz, but also with a varied array of personalities including Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Igor Stravinsky, Fred Astaire, Joan Baez, Steve McQueen, Chris Rock and Benicio Del Toro. Clax was a friend, a colleague, good company and -- in a category that has seemed sparsely populated in our hard, fast world -- a gentleman, meaning that he was kind, polite and unfailingly considerate. To see some of Bill Claxton's work go here. Obituaries are just beginning to show up on the internet. Here is an ...

THE HISTORY BOYZ
Published 10/20/2008 at The Greenleaf Music Blog
... the morning before at age 80 gave the timing of the photo a cosmic-mystical bent. Sands in the hourglass and all that. Claxton's images are so pervasive in American culture it's almost ridiculous to have to restate it. The man himself was toweringly tall and thin and had a deep voice. We saw him speak last year at a jazz conference at the Getty Institute and he memorably commented on the difference he saw in the West Coast musicians from the East Coast ("Musicians on the West Coast were healthy -- even the junkies ate health food") as well as the stories behind some of his ...