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About Alessandra Sanguinetti:
Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York in 1968, raised in Argentina from 1970 until 2003, and is currently based in New York.

She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Hasselblad Foundation grant. Her photographs are included in public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City and Ruth Benzacar Gallery in Buenos Aires. Her book, “On the Sixth Day,” was published by Nazraeil Press in January 2006. Sanguinetti has photographed for The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, Newsweek, and New York Magazine.
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About Benjamin Cawthra:
“Benjamin Cawthra, writing with grace and a formidable command of jazz history and American culture, makes us see the sounds, the social relations, and the myths of jazz as he ably uncovers the personal and institutional networks of musicians, writers, magazines, and record companies in which jazz photography developed. Even as Blue Notes in Black and White casts a sharp eye on photographic aesthetics—its pages brim with bracing insights into Gjon Mili’s informal but magisterial style, Francis Wolff’s use of chiaroscuro, and Herman Leonard’s concept of the sculpted face—it also works as a groundbreaking history of jazz criticism. At its best, this excellent book serves as a model for a multisensory music criticism: while reading it, I often felt I was hearing the music more deeply.”

—John Gennari, author of Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics
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