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Robert Campbell in Film
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Several weeks ago I posted on Jessica Ferber's haunting new book on the photos of Robert Campbell, who died homeless in Vermont in 2002. Jessica rescued boxes of his images and negatives from the shelter and just published a book of Campbell's work (go here), which features jazz musicians, folk artists and Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. I wrote the book's forward. Late last week, Jessica wrote to tell me about discovering Campbell in the film, Goodbye, Columbus, a ...
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Discovering Robert Campbell
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Three years ago, Jessica Ferber called to tell me an incredible story. Jessica said that back in 2002 she was living in Burlington, Vt., when her roommate told her about a project she was too busy to take on. A local homeless shelter had contacted their former philosophy professor at the University of Vermont about a homeless man who had just died and left behind a ton of photographs he had taken. Many of them were of leading jazz artists ...
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Robert Campbell
Instrument: Bass, acoustic
Born: July 17, 1952
