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Site Location: Bob Barry Biography
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Photo by Ray Avery
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My journey into the world of photography began in the late sixties while
living on the upper West side of Manhattan. I was fascinated with New York’s
parks, architecture, and landmarks, and spent a great deal of time
photographing my neighborhood, Riverside Park, along the Hudson River. After
a while I began to focus more on the street life of the city. I started with
the shop owners, the pizza guys, street musicians, street people, and artists
of New York. Working as an actor and musician gave me access to people and
places that were off the beaten path, allowing me to photograph the
rehearsals, and performances of musical comedies, clubs, and lounges around
town.
After resettling in Los Angeles in 1980, I put my camera down for a
while. A chance meeting with John and Jeanne Pisano at one of their
performances one evening led me to an enclave of the finest jazz musicians to
be found anywhere. John Pisano started his Guitar Night soon after our
meeting. On a whim, I brought a camera to that first Guitar Night. That was
almost five years ago and you can count on one hand the Guitar Nights I have
since missed.
Over the years I have photographed over seventy of the finest and most
famous jazz guitarists, along with the bass players, drummers, horn and reed
players, keyboard artists, and of course, the vocalists.
My work started appearing in newspapers and magazines. The Los Angeles
Times, Just Jazz Guitar, Twentieth Century Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, and
several other in-house and trade magazines. I began to do advertising work
and CD photo art. In the last two years I contributed covers and inside work
on eighteen CD’s including Kenny Burrell’s new “Lucky So and So”, Rosemary
Clooney’s “Sentimental Journey”, Dianne Schuur / Maynard Ferguson’s
“Swingin’ For Schuur”, The “Blonde” Mini Series Soundtrack, The FLying
Pisanos “Ensemble”, Andrea Bakers “Table for One”, The Ron Eschete Trio
“Live at Rocco’s”, Ron Anthony / Dave Carpenter “It’s Always 4 am”, Doug
MacDonald’s “Blue Capers”, The Acoustic Jazz Quartet, Mike Anthony’s
“Natural Instincts, Byron walls “Cool, Calm and Collected”, Ray Walker /
John Pisano “Affinity”, Cathy Segal-Garcia / Ross Tompkins’s “Heart to
Heart”, and Frank Potenza’s soon to be released “The Legacy”.
My friend and mentor the noted jazz photographer Ray Avery calls my
photos “Performance Portraits”. It is the description that most satisfies
me. All the photos you will see were taken during live performances with
available light.
For information on purchasing photos from the Bob Barry Jazzography Collection, please click on the Price List link located
on the top menu bar, or contact us directly at:
Jazzography
6277 Ivarene Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Tel: 323-856-0565 Fax: 323-856-0565
Email: jazzbarry@aol.com
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