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Gottlieb took pictures of hundreds of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, typically while they were playing or singing at well-known New York City jazz clubs. His subjects included
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determined that it would not pay a photographer to accompany
Gottlieb on his visits to jazz clubs, Gottlieb borrowed a press camera and began taking pictures for his column.
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in the 1930s and 1940s. Gottlieb's photographs are among the best known and widely reproduced images of this jazz era.
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