Benny Goodman at rehearsal with his new group / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo. – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Benny Goodman at rehearsal with his new group / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Benny Goodman at rehearsal with his new group / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo.
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Benny Goodman, the clarinetist long called the King of Swing, is the figure at the center of this 1952 rehearsal shot, working with a new group of players and a piano nearby. The picture comes from the World-Telegram and Sun newspaper's staff files, taken by photographer Fred Palumbo, and it captures the ordinary business of a band putting material together, away from the stage lights of his 1930s heyday. Goodman had led orchestras since the early 1930s, and by the early 1950s he was reshaping his groups for a changing popular music market, which makes this unglamorous working moment a useful record of that transition.
| Created / published | 1952 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1950-1960.Group portraits 1950-1960.Photographic prints 1950-1960. |
| Notes | NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Goodman, Benny,--1909-1986. Musicians--1950-1960. Pianos--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,266 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-205909 |
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