Jazz, Giants and Journeys

The Photography of Herman Leonard by David Houston

Publisher: Scala Publishers

Written in English

Published: October 25, 2006 Pages: 240 Downloads: 64

Subjects:

Individual photographers,
Photographs: portraits,
General,
Art,
Art & Art Instruction,
Art / General,
Fashion,
Jazz,
Photography, Artistic,
Pictorial works

The Physical Object
Format	Hardcover
Number of Pages	240
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL9000721M
ISBN 10	1857594347
ISBN 10	9781857594348

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