{"id":1901,"date":"2009-12-12T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2009-12-12T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T09:05:00","slug":"heres_looking_at_picture_books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/12\/heres_looking_at_picture_books\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Looking At Picture Books, Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/2009\/12\/w-royal-stokes-recent-jazz-blues-popphotography-art-books\/\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Jazzhouse<\/em><\/a> web site, W. Royal Stokes posts a valuable column recommending recent jazz, blues and pop photography and art books. It is an extensive list, just in time for Christmas. Stokes gives each book a thorough paragraph of review and a link to an online source for purchase. Here is some of what he writes about Hank O&#8217;Neal&#8217;s Ghosts of Harlem, a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/09\/book_hank_oneal.html\"target=\"_blank\"><strong>Doug&#8217;s Pick<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That he shot them with an ancient wooden view camera, setting up lights, inserting a plate, and throwing a cloth over his head and the instrument (shades of Matthew Brady!) says much about his determination to capture that &#8220;moment of truth&#8221; in the best possible light. Which he did in image after image.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was surprised and pleased to find that Mr. Stokes included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parksidepublications.com\/takefive.html\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond<\/em><\/a> despite its being a biography, not a picture book. Now I am even happier that the publisher insisted on lots of photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Jazzhouse web site, W. Royal Stokes posts a valuable column recommending recent jazz, blues and pop photography and art books. It is an extensive list, just in time for Christmas. Stokes gives each book a thorough paragraph of review and a link to an online source for purchase. Here is some of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}