Inspiring Older Readers

posted on 03 Aug 2015

William Claxton's classic photographs of the US jazz scene of the post-war years are luminescent and evocative. The black and white prints - which glow off the page - are capable of not only giving you a documentary record but conjour-up the atmosphere of creative excitment the jazz scene represented. To me they are impossibly glamorous and capture a world I would have loved to be part of.

Taschen have done a great job of brinnging together Claxton's work and they have really done it justice with the quality of the prints they reproduced - any of them might serve as a framed portrait for the wall. But don't dare cut this book up - it's a little (well quite big, actually) gem.

Printed by Taschen Books in 1999.

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