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Lee Tanner began using a camera as a teenager in New York City. An avid jazz
fan from the age of eight and inspired by the jazz photography of Gjon Mili, Bill Claxton,
Herb tanner, and Herman Leonard, he turned to documenting the jazz scene with a love
for the music comparable only to his creative drive for visual expression. Photography,
however, was only an avocation. After graduation from college and a short tour in the U.
S. Army, Tanner undertookscientific graduate studies leading to a career in metallurgical
research. His career in science proceeded in parallel with the photography of jazz
musicians for more than 40 years. Tanner scientific work involved frequent travel and he
took every opportunity to capture the jazz scene on film in all the cities he visited in the
U. S. and Europe.
While living in Boston in the 60s, Tanner turned to video presentation, producing a live,
impromptu music series entitled MIXED BAG on the PBS channel WGBH. Downbeat was
the first magazineto publish Tanner's work in 1958 and later his pictures appeared on the
pages of many otherjournals including Rolling Stone, Jazz Magazine (Paris), Jazz Times,
American Photo and Popular Photography. They also graced the jackets for LP and CD
records produced by the Atlantic, Sony/Columbia, Verve, Fantasy, Rhino and Prestige
recording companies.
Tanner has had numerous one-man shows in galleries and jazz clubs across the country
including The Jazz Gallery in New York City, and Vision Gallery, Kimball's East and Yoshi's
in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently retired from research, Tanner now devotes full
attention to photography and to curating a series of group photographic exhibits entitled
The Jazz Image. Pomegranate Art Books and Friedman/Fairfax Publishing Co. have
published several collections of his work in books, posters and calendars. The recent
books from Friedman/Faifax are Images of Jazz and Images of the Blues. Imagesof Jazz
also includes a 17-track CD that Tanner compiled from the Sony/Columbia archives.
Website: www.jazzimage.com
Email: jazzimage@aol.com
All photos copyright © Lee Tanner.
All Rights Reserved.
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