Bill Gottlieb's body of work is jazz's equivalent of the Farm Security Administration's photographs of America during the (last) Great Depression: definitive, authoritative, and creatively documentary. That both are now in the Library of Congress and in the public domain strikes me as a very right thing: the proper repository for such a treasure, one openly available to us all.
Bill Gottlieb's body of work is jazz's equivalent of the Farm Security Administration's photographs of America during the (last) Great Depression: definitive, authoritative, and creatively documentary. That both are now in the Library of Congress and in the public domain strikes me as a very right thing: the proper repository for such a treasure, one openly available to us all.