Lona Foote (July 19, 1950 – April 15, 1993) was an American photographer who specialised in photographing the avant-garde jazz, dance and art scenes of
New York City in the 1980s and early 1990s. Her photographs appeared in ''
The New York Times'', ''
Down Beat'', ''
Ear'' and ''
The Village Voice''.
Together with the photographer
Bob Parent, who died in 1987, Foote is commemorated annually by the Lona Foote/Bob Parent Award for Career Excellence in Photography since 2001 at the
Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.
Foote died of
breast cancer on April 15, 1993, aged 42, at Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan.
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Lona Foote, Jazz Photographer
1993 deaths
Date of birth missing
Place of birth missing
American women photographers
Jazz photographers
20th-century American women artists
20th-century American people
Deaths from breast cancer in New York (state)
1950 births
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