This photo for the cover of The Shangri-Las debut album from 1965 is one of many commercial photos by Hugh Bell, whose photographs appeared on dozens of album covers throughout the period. They primarily featured jazz artists, including Sarah Vaughn, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderly, Houston Person, Bill Hardman, Larry Coryell, and the Nat Dixon Quartet. Director Nagy included this cover in her Roadside Attractions release CALL JANE, starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Mara, about a 1960s housewife (Banks) who joins the Jane Collective to fight for women's rights as she struggles to cope with her need for an abortion during a time of limited social or political support.

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.

The Estate of Hugh Bell is exclusively represented by Gartenberg Media Enterprises, Inc.

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