The Photography of Herman Leonard

The Photography of Herman Leonard David Houston, Jenny Bagert, Quincy Jones Hardback, 240 pages. Published October, 2025 Highlights Includes Herman Leonard’s famous jazz portraits from the 1940s and 50s and rare images of diverse figures including Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein Includes a Foreword by Quincy Jones Published in cooperation with the Ogden Museum of Art in New Orleans and the Herman Leonard Estate. Description ‘The most complete survey of his lifetime of photography.’ – The Guardian.  With a camera as his backstage pass, Herman Leonard photographed the giants of jazz in their golden age, movie stars on set and on their travels to exotic places, the fashion world of Paris in the 1960s, and the inner sanctums of his beloved New Orleans. This exquisite book, published in a new edition with a beautiful updated cover, is the only full treatment of this extraordinary life and distinctive body of work and gives Leonard’s photographs the artistic recognition that t