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her photographs serve as an able guide to truths that are better sensed than seen

drawing what is hidden to the surface

If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds presented it is what I have come to believe is the spirit of the bikeriders: the spirit of the hand that twists open the throttle on the crackling engines of big bikes and rides them on racetracks or through traffic or

as the hoop leaves bruises on her waist

Jazz OOP her photographs serve as anEssay by Leonard Feather William Claxton's legendary JAZZ LIFE, published in Germany 1962, is long out of print. Twenty five years later, William Claxton re edited his photographs of the jazz greats during the 1950's. Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and all the rest are intimately recorded by this photographer. Included are Claxton's notes on each performer, remembering their friendships, performances and sometimes