Billie Holiday, 'Lady In Satin' Recording Sessions, New York City, 1957

Print Details About this photograph After 16 years recording for other labels, Billie Holiday returned to Columbia Records in late 1957 to create one of her last studio masterpieces, Lady In Satin. Featuring arrangements by renowned bandleader Ray Ellis, Lady In Satin was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. Nearing the end of her turbulent emotional life and career, Billie Holiday took Lady In Satin into a realm of raw emotional truth unprecedented in jazz or popular music. The unvarnished soul of Lady Day is captured verbatim in this iconic candid portrait taken in the recording studio by Don Hunstein in December, 1957. Print sizes and editions 11" x 14" - Limited Edition  16" x 20" - Limited Edition  20" x 24" - Limited Edition  30" x 40" - Limited Edition Print type Archival pigment print Paper type Archival paper Signature Estate stamped About the photographer Don Hunstein worked as chief staff photographer for Columbia Records for over thirty years. During his time the