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A PHOTOGRAPH IS USUALLY LOOKED AT SELDOM LOOKED INTO (Ansel Adams)
("Teaching photography"... * Lake Turkana, Kenya, 1980)
** SUMMARY ** Musicians Steve Lacy
Architecture / Design Street Art Images of Japan Nature New York City Pot-Pourri
Africa Argentina Benin Bolivia Burundi Comoros Islands Congo - Congo2 - Congo3 - Congo4 Guinea Haiti - Haiti2 Mali Mauritania Rwanda Kilimanjaro Tanzania / Zanzibar SaoTome Skies of Africa Togo
** BACKGROUND **
- Gilles took his first picture at age one in Lyon, France, with his father's 6x9cm Voigtlander camera!
- Always curious about the way to see things around him, he took a two-year photography course with the Famous Photographers School (Westport, CT) in the late 60's. Guiding Faculty comprised: Richard Avedon, Richard Beattie, Joseph Costa, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Irving Penn and Ezra Stoller, among others.
- He purchased his first Nikon professional camera in 1971 and has been using Nikon equipment ever since (for both 35mm and digital formats).
** PUBLISHED PHOTOS **
- Several of his music related photos have been published in various publications / CDs in the USA and abroad, notably
. Photo of Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone) on the cover of All About Jazz / NY, August 2003 . Photo of Steve Lacy in the Austrian monthly “Jazzzeit”, article “der Sushimeister in der Mönchskutte” (the Sushi Master in the Monk's Cloak), June 2003 . Photo of Jean-Jacques Avenel (double bass), article in Bass Player magazine, May 2000 . Photo of Steve Lacy Trio (w/ Jean-Jacques Avenel & John Betsch), CD "THE RENT" (Cavity Search, 1999) . Photo of Steve Lacy Septet (w/ Irene Aebi, Petia Kaufman, Tina Wrase, Cathrin Pfeifer, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Daniel 'Topo' Gioia), CD "THE CRY" (Soul Note, 1999) . Photos of the Monk's Dream Quartet, and of the Monksiland Quintet, both at Iridium (NY) published in the book "Conversations," Interviews with Steve Lacy (Jason Weiss, Duke University, 2006) see Monksiland photo . Photos of Steve Lacy Solo at the Egg Farm (Japan), CD "TEN OF DUKES + SIX ORIGINALS" (Senators Records, 2002)
- Some of his photos about / for musicians can be seen on the musicians' respective websites.
** UNPUBLISHED WORKS **
- A compilation book of what he considers his best photographs - organized as per the themes presented on this page - is in preparation.
MUSICIANS
see section Musicians and Steve Lacy
all photos © Gilles Marie-Paul Laheurte
ARCHITECTURE / DESIGN
see section Architecture / Design
NATURE
see section Nature
POT-POURRI
see section Pot-pourri
AFRICA
see section Africa Photos
HAITI
see section Haiti Photos
all photos © Gilles Marie-Paul Laheurte
ARGENTINA
see section Argentina Photos
FISHERMEN
see section Photos from Lake Albert
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