William Gottlieb Signed Photogravure of Ella Fitzgerald

GOTTLIEB, William. A poster-size black and white photogravure showing Ella Fitzgerald singing as an entranced Dizzy Gillespie looks on, bassist Ray Brown (to whom she was married) at left, and the head of nobleman Timmie Rosenkrantz in the foreground. New York: Bruce Teleky, Inc., 1998. Measures 17" x 24" and is captioned below the image, "William P. Gottlieb The Golden Age of Jazz". Signed and inscribed by Gottlieb below the caption in black felt tip, "To Joel from Bill Gottlieb". In near fine condition and scarce.

William Paul Gottlieb (1917-2006) was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the Golden Age of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. About Gottlieb's photographs, jazz historian Walter Schaap once commented, "They are such wonderful photographs and so typical of the artist they represented that it stuck in my memory that this is what Coleman Hawkins looked like, and this is what Lester Young looked like, and this is what Louis Armstrong looked like, so that today, when I recall these musicians whom I knew, I think of them in terms of what they look like in Bill's photographs." The pictures William Gottlieb took from 1938 to 1948 are "perhaps the most widely reproduced jazz images today" (Library of Congress).

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

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