Muddy Waters and his orchestra – Historic Reproduction
(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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Muddy Waters and his orchestra
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Muddy Waters, the Mississippi-born blues guitarist and singer, is the subject of this 1964 publicity portrait, which carries a note identifying him as a Chess recording artist and bears the imprint of the Shaw Artists Corporation in New York. Chess Records in Chicago was the label that carried Waters through the 1950s and 1960s, releasing the electric Chicago blues records that shaped rock and roll in the decade that followed. Photographs like this one were made for booking agents and newspapers, and this print comes from the New York World-Telegram and the Sun collection held by the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | 1964 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1960-1970.Publicity photographs 1960-1970.Photographic prints 1960-1970. |
| Notes | On recto: Chess recording artist; Direction, Shaw Artists Corporation, New York, N.Y. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Muddy Waters,--1915-1983. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,157 × 5,114 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-199577 |
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