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A PHOTOGRAPH IS USUALLY LOOKED AT
SELDOM LOOKED INTO
(Ansel Adams)
("Teaching photography"... * Lake Turkana, Kenya, 1980)
** SUMMARY **
Musicians
Architecture / Design
Nature
Pot-Pourri
Africa
Bolivia
Burundi
Congo
Haiti
Steve Lacy
** 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)
. 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** UNPUBLISHED WORKS **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
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