BILLIE HOLIDAY PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL LICENSED TO AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES ERSKINE FOR 2019 BILLIE DOCUMENTARY
/Gartenberg Media, the exclusive representative of the Estate of Hugh Bell, licensed several powerful images Bell took of the famed singer backstage at Carnegie Hall to this feature production.
SELF PORTRAIT (CA. 1952)
Hugh Bell was a renowned art and commercial photographer, known primarily for his outstanding series of jazz photographs taken mostly in New York City in the 1950s. Also noted are his photos of theater and dance, LGBT life in NYC, Afro-Caribbean subjects, and an intimate series of the Richard Leacock family, among other subjects.
All photographs are © The Estate of Hugh Bell.