作者介紹
作者介紹 Don Bronstein is credited with designing and photographing over 500 album covers for Chess Records and its subsidiaries: Checker, Argo, Verve, and Cadet, as well as Mercury, Columbia, and Universal. Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, Sammy Davis Jr., Etta James, Howlin Wolf, Bo Diddley, and Little Walter, to name a few. In 1963, Bronstein photographed a young Barbra Streisand looking out as the sun rose over Lake Michigan. The photograph was used on the cover of her PEOPLE album and was awarded a Grammy for the best album cover. As Playboy's first photographer, he created covers and centerfolds in the 1950s and '60s, establishing the look and feel of a centerfold, and traveled the world to discover subjects and inspiration all over the world. Bronstein died in 1968, at the age of 41, in Mexico on assignment for the magazine Marshall Chess, co-founder of Chess Records and president of Rolling Stone Records has produced hundreds of platinum selling records in his time such as, Etta James' "Peaches," Shirley Scott's "Superstition," Chuck Berry's "Chuck Berry." Christian McBride is a jazz bassist, composer and arranger. He has appeared on more than 400 recordings as a sideman, and is an nine-time Grammy Award winner. A. D. Coleman is an internationally known critic of photography and photo-based art, and a widely published commentator on new digital technologies. In 2002 he received the Culture Prize of the German Photographic Society -- the first critic of photography ever so honored. In 2010 he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society (U.K.) for "sustained excellence in writing about photography." In 2014 he received the Society for Photographic Education's Insight Award for lifetime contribution to the field, and in 2015 both the Society of Professional Journalists SDX Award for Research About Journalism and The Photo Review Award "for outstanding contributions to photography, including the investigation of Robert Capa's D-Day photographs." Coleman has published 8 books and more than 2500 essays on photography and related subjects. Formerly a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, and the New York Observer, Coleman has contributed to ARTnews, Art On Paper, Technology Review, Ag (England), European Photography (Germany), La Fotografia (Spain), and Art Today (China). His work has been translated into 22 languages and published in 32 countries. Coleman's widely read blog "Photocritic International" appears at photocritic.com. Since 2005, exhibitions that he has curated have opened at museums, galleries, and festivals in Canada, China, Finland, Italy, Rumania, Slovakia, and the U.S.