Herb Snitzer (''né'' Herbert D. Snitzer; November 1932 – December 31, 2022) was an American photographer who photographed jazz musicians in the 1950s and 1960s. He lived in

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and opened his own gallery in 2014. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the

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and the

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. Snitzer died from complications of Parkinson's disease on December 31, 2022, at the age of 90.

Publications

Books by Snitzer

*''Living at Summerhill: A Photographic Documentary on A. S. Neill's Pioneering School''. MacMillan, 1968. . *''Today is for Children: Numbers Can Wait''. MacMillan, 1972. *''Jazz: A Visual Journey''. Notables, 1999. *''Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir''. University Press of Mississippi, 2011.

Books with others

*''The New York I Know''. By

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. Lippincott, 1961. Photographs by Snitzer. *''Reprise, The Extraordinary Revival of Early Music''. With Joel Cohen. Little Brown, 1985.

Solo exhibitions

*''Faces and Places: One Man Show by Herb Snitzer'',

, Tampa, Florida, 2001 *''Herb Snitzer: Celebrating Fifty Years in Photography'',

, Saint Petersburg, Florida, 2007 *''A Jazz Memoir: Photography by Herb Snitzer'',

, Atlanta, Georgia, 2020

Collections

Snitzer's work is held in the following permanent collections: *

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, Minneapolis, Minnesota: 5 prints (as of 14 January 2023) *

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, New York: 1 print (as of 14 January 2023)

References

External links

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Herb Snitzer TEDx Talk about The Summmerhill School

Herb Snitzer on NBC

Herb Snitzer - Image Archive
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