MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow Deborah Willis updated her 2000 comprehensive history of Black photographers and groundbreaking pictorial collection of African American life, “Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present.” The new edition “ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK,” includes work by Hugh Bell, among other notable black photograhers, and is published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a wholly subsidiary of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Hugh Bell (1927-2012) was a renowned art and commercial photographer of Afro-Caribbean descent, who worked in New York City over the course of his entire professional career. He graduated with a degree in Journalism and Cinematic Art from NYU in 1952. His photograph “Hot Jazz” from the same year was later included in “The Family of Man” exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. Bell is most well known for his numerous photographs of jazz greats (“Jazz Giants” series) many of which appeared in books and on vinyl record covers.

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THELONIUS MONK, BILLIE HOLIDAY, AND SARAH VAUGHAN PHOTOS BY HUGH BELL LICENSED FOR DEBORAH WILLIS' "ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK"