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Description

1. 8 items (one folder); 28 x 36 cm

Summary

1. Depictions of African Americans participating in jazz funerals in New Orleans, Louisiana, during 1969 to 1970, consisting of candid shots and views of musicians, pallbearers and mourners in funeral processions; views of spectators waiting for funeral processions; and individual views of the second line dancers following a burial, a tuba player going home after a funeral, and a mourner carrying the deceased musician's double bass at the burial site.

Subject

1. Gelatin silver prints > 1990-1999
2. Portrait photographs > 1990-1999
3. New Orleans (La.)
4. African American jazz musicians > Louisiana > New Orleans
5. Funeral processions > Louisiana > New Orleans > 1960-1970
6. African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Louisiana > New Orleans

Genre/Form

1. Portrait photographs – 1990-1999.
2. Gelatin silver prints – 1990-1999.

Call number

1. Sc Photo Portfolio (Touchet, L. The New Orleans jazz funerals)

Note

1. Title taken from photographer's website.
2. All photographs bear photographer's signature, and handwritten copyright date and print number on verso. All items accompanied by printed sheet providing photographer's biography, and descriptive and copyright information about print. All images are printed full frame.
3. "This print was printed from the original negative in accordance with the highest standards for archival permanence." -Text from printed photographer's statement.
4. Images originally captured 1969-1970, and printed between 1992-1994.

Terms of use (note)

1. Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

1. Leo Touchet, born in Louisiana in 1939 and raised in Abbeville, LA, has been photographing since 1965. His work has appeared in various publications such as Life, Time, the New York Times, Paris Match and Der Stern, and been exhibited in New York City, various locations in the American South and Paris, France. Touchet's photographic projects have included the Angkor ruins in Cambodia (1967), New Orleans jazz funerals (1969-1970), national and international horse racing (1972-1973), views of desert sand dunes in Venezuela, Texas and California (1993-1996), and damage from Hurricane Rita (2005).

Publications (note)

1. Rejoice when you die : the New Orleans jazz funerals / photographs by Leo Touchet ; text by Vernel Bagneris ; introduction by Ellis L. Marsalis, Jr. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1998.

Author

1. Touchet, Leo, photographer.

Title

1. The New Orleans jazz funerals / Leo Touchet.

Production

1. 1992-1994.

Copyright date

1. ©1993-1994

Type of content

1. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Terms of use

1. Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

1. Leo Touchet, born in Louisiana in 1939 and raised in Abbeville, LA, has been photographing since 1965. His work has appeared in various publications such as Life, Time, the New York Times, Paris Match and Der Stern, and been exhibited in New York City, various locations in the American South and Paris, France. Touchet's photographic projects have included the Angkor ruins in Cambodia (1967), New Orleans jazz funerals (1969-1970), national and international horse racing (1972-1973), views of desert sand dunes in Venezuela, Texas and California (1993-1996), and damage from Hurricane Rita (2005).

Publications

1. Rejoice when you die : the New Orleans jazz funerals / photographs by Leo Touchet ; text by Vernel Bagneris ; introduction by Ellis L. Marsalis, Jr. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1998.

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Research call number

1. Sc Photo Portfolio (Touchet, L. The New Orleans jazz funerals)