Charlie Parker and Chet Baker

Лот 529
29.09.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Продан
£ 2 772
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Место проведенияВеликобритания, London
Комиссияsee on Website%
Архив
Аукцион завершен. Ставки на лот больше не принимаются.
Archive
ID 1029180
Лот 529 | Charlie Parker and Chet Baker
Оценочная стоимость
£ 1 500 – 2 500
William CLAXTON (1927-2008)

Charlie Parker and Chet Baker at the Tiffany Club, Los Angeles, 1953
gelatin silver print, printed 1987
signed, dated and numbered ‘1-50’ in ink (recto); stamped photographer’s credits and annotations in ink (verso); additionally stamped ‘Terry Southern Collection’ (verso)
14 x 11 in. (353 x 278 mm).

One of the great jazz photographers, William Claxton documented the visits of Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and countless other jazz luminaries to California, capturing the unique flavour of the West Coast jazz scene. Working for Pacific Jazz Records, he shot numerous album covers and his work regularly appeared in such magazines as Life, Paris Match and Vogue. Still a student at the time, Claxton was just starting to establish himself as a photographer when he turned up at the Tiffany Club to shoot his idol, Charlie Parker in June 1953. Later that night, ‘staring at the print in the developing tray, he watched Baker’s face appear “like magic” …In a documentary about Claxton, Jazz Seen, by filmmaker Julian Benedikt, Claxton said that he had never known the meaning of “photogenic” until he took those first pictures of Baker.’ For the next five years, Claxton chronicled Baker’s rise to fame. Gavin, 53.

When asked why he liked to photograph jazz musicians, Claxton replied: ‘First, and most important, I love their music. But I am also fascinated by the diverse qualities they possess. They have ingenuousness, a sort of open, innocent attitude. Yet at the same time they display a strong discipline in their dedication to their craft.’ Jazz Times, vol.26.

[With:] CLAXTON, William and Joachim E. BERENDT. Jazz Life. Auf den Spuren Des Jazz. Offenburg: Burda Druck und Verlag, 1961. First edition. Illustrated throughout from Claxton’s photographs, pictorial endpapers, two 7-inch vinyl records to end-pocket. Original black cloth gilt, with the dust-jacket. The book records a 1960 cross-country tour of America undertaken by German writer Joachim Berendt and photographer William Claxton in search of jazz. Berendt’s words accompany Claxton’s arresting images, described by Newsweek as ‘the most thorough and imaginative visual record of American jazz life at midcentury that we'll ever see.’ Jones, ‘Jazz: Pictures That Swing’ for Newsweek, 27 November 2005.

[With:] CLAXTON, William. Jazz West Coast. A Portfolio of Photographs. Hollywood: Linear Productions, Inc., 1955. Quarto (343 x 267 mm). Wire-stitched in the original illustrated card wraps. Later authorial presentation inscription to Yves, dated 3 November 1993.

[And:] - Jazz. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. With loosely inserted programme sheet for a performance by The Buddy Collette Big Band with guest soloist Chico Hamilton, inscribed to Charlie Watts ‘Charlie, Let’s get it on, Dig you man, Chico Hamilton’.
Адрес торгов CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
Великобритания
Предосмотр
20.09.2023 13:00 – 17:00
21.09.2023 09:00 – 17:00
22.09.2023 09:00 – 17:00
23.09.2023 12:00 – 17:00
24.09.2023 12:00 – 17:00
25.09.2023 09:00 – 17:00
26.09.2023 09:00 – 17:00
27.09.2023 09:00 – 17:00
Телефон +44 (0)20 7839 9060
E-mail
Комиссия see on Website
Условия использованияУсловия использования

Больше от Создателя

WILLIAM CLAXTON (1927–2008)
WILLIAM CLAXTON (1927–2008)
$100
WILLIAM CLAXTON (1927-2008)
WILLIAM CLAXTON (1927-2008)
$100
An archive of eleven rare 78 rpm Savoy Records test pressings, including Charlie Parker’s landmark first studio recordings as leader, from the collection of legendary Savoy producer Teddy Reig, 1944-46
An archive of eleven rare 78 rpm Savoy Records test pressings, including Charlie Parker’s landmark first studio recordings as leader, from the collection of legendary Savoy producer Teddy Reig, 1944-46
£6 000
Document signed
Document signed
£1 200
An instrument case, personally owned and used by Charlie “Bird” Parker, dating from his trip to Sweden in November 1950
An instrument case, personally owned and used by Charlie “Bird” Parker, dating from his trip to Sweden in November 1950
£3 000
Three autograph notes from Charlie Parker to his common-law wife Chan Parker, early 1950s
Three autograph notes from Charlie Parker to his common-law wife Chan Parker, early 1950s
£1 500
Part-printed document signed in black ink 'Charlie Parker', 19 May 1954
Part-printed document signed in black ink 'Charlie Parker', 19 May 1954
£1 500
Promotional mailer signed
Promotional mailer signed
£1 200