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William P. Gottlieb

1917 - 2006

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William Paul Gottlieb (January 28, 1917 – April 23, 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. Gottlieb's photographs are among the best known and widely reproduced images of this jazz era. Gottlieb took pictures of hundreds of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, typically while they were playing or singing at well-known New York City jazz clubs. His subjects included Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Jo Stafford, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Jordan, Ella Fitzgerald, Toots Thielemans, Cab Calloway, and Benny Carter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William P. Gottlieb is the 76th most popular photographer (up from 108th in 2019), the 5,322nd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,876th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, William P. Gottlieb ranks 76 out of 148. Before him are Imogen Cunningham, Karl Blossfeldt, Erich Salomon, Karimeh Abbud, Marc Riboud, and Werner Bischof. After him are Lennart Nilsson, Berry Berenson, Ansel Adams, Abbas, Heinrich Zille, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

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Among people born in 1917, William P. Gottlieb ranks 182. Before him are Red Auerbach, Musine Kokalari, André Waterkeyn, Zainab al Ghazali, Jean Lucas, and Betty Holberton. After him are Otto Glória, Domenico Bartolucci, Yuri Lyubimov, Franceska Mann, Robert Manzon, and Durward Knowles. Among people deceased in 2006, William P. Gottlieb ranks 194. Before him are Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Kathleen Antonelli, Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Octavia E. Butler, and Dennis Weaver. After him are Peter Norman, Raúl Francisco Primatesta, Charles E. Brady Jr., Said Mohamed Djohar, Max Merkel, and Karl Hugo Strunz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William P. Gottlieb ranks 5,322 out of 20,380. Before him are Broderick Crawford (1911), Harold Osborn (1899), Tiger Woods (1975), Ted Nugent (1948), Barbara Harris (1935), and Henry Cowell (1897). After him are Lainie Kazan (1940), Charles Fort (1874), Walter De Maria (1935), Reed Hastings (1960), Mike Flanagan (1978), and Berry Gordy (1929).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, William P. Gottlieb ranks 20. Before him are Paul Strand (1890), Sean Flynn (1941), Wilson Bentley (1865), Herb Ritts (1952), Gertrude Käsebier (1852), and Imogen Cunningham (1883). After him are Berry Berenson (1948), Ansel Adams (1902), Helen Levitt (1913), Spencer Tunick (1967), Francesca Woodman (1958), and William Eggleston (1939).

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