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Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill Cover Image Book Book

Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill / Jerry Dantzic, Grayson Dantzic ; a reflection by Zadie Smith.

Dantzic, Jerry, (photographer.). Dantzic, Grayson, (author.). Smith, Zadie, (writer of introduction.).

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  • ISBN: 9780500544655
  • ISBN: 0500544654
  • Physical Description: 144 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2017.

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In 1957, New York photojournalist Jerry Dantzic spent time with the iconic singer Billie Holiday during a week-long run of performances at the Newark, New Jersey, nightclub Sugar Hill. The resulting images offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Billie with her family, friends, and her pet chihuahua, Pepe; playing with her godchild (son of her autobiography's coauthor, William Dufty); washing dishes at the Duftys' home; walking the streets of Newark; in her hotel room; waiting backstage or having a drink in front of the stage; and performing. The years and the struggles seem to vanish when she sings; her face lights up. Later that same year, Dantzic photographed her in color at the second New York Jazz Festival at Randall's Island. Only a handful of the photographs in the book have ever been published. In her text, Zadie Smith evokes Lady Day herself and shows us what she sees as she inhabits these images and reveals what she is thinking.

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Subject: Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 > Pictorial works.
African American women jazz singers > Pictorial works.
Genre: Portrait photography.

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