Background
Art Kane (born Arthur Kanofsky) was born on April 9, 1925, in New York City into a Jewish family. He was a son of Herman and Pauline (Horowitz) Kane.
Cooper Union
(On a summer morning in 1958, Esquire magazine assembled t...)
On a summer morning in 1958, Esquire magazine assembled the greatest jazz luminaries of the day on a door stoop in Harlem to illustrate with living proof The Golden Age of Jazz. This portrait has since become the most famous, most recognized and most collected jazz picture ever. It also became the focus for the 1995 Oscar-nominated film A Great Day in Harlem. There has never been a book published about that day, and Great Jazz Day in Harlem features not only the now-immortalized image, but many more shots from the likes of Milt Hinton and Art Kane, and even Dizzy Gillespie.
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1999
Art Kane (born Arthur Kanofsky) was born on April 9, 1925, in New York City into a Jewish family. He was a son of Herman and Pauline (Horowitz) Kane.
Art Kane graduated from Cooper Union, New York City, in 1950.
During the Second World War Art Kane served in an unusual deception unit known as The Ghost Army, an incubator for many young artists. He became, at age 26, the art director for Seventeen Magazine, one of the youngest art directors of a major publication.
Art Kane began to explore his passion for photography, eventually studying under the legendary Alexey Brodovitch. In 1958, he got an assignment that would launch his career as a photographer, when he assembled 57 legendary jazz musicians, for Esquire magazine in 1958 in Harlem. Eventually, the Esquire photograph would become the basis for a documentary, A Great Day in Harlem.
In 1989, the Art Kane Photo Workshops were created in Cape May, New Jersey. They were week-long workshops with notable photographers.
In 1995, Art Kane, 69, committed suicide by shooting himself.
(On a summer morning in 1958, Esquire magazine assembled t...)
1999
Quotations:
"You have to own people..grab them, twist them into what you want to say about them."
"I've always considered myself an illustrator, a literate photographer interested in producing images that reflect the essence of an idea...I wanted to interpret the human scene rather than simply record lieutenant."
Art Kane had 3 children.