A Great Day in Harlem – Foto: Gordon Parks, Winter 1995/96 … leider sind die Überlebenden nicht dort positioniert, wo sie auf dem Originalfoto standen, das würde die Identifikation vereinfachen, hätte aber wohl die Komposition des Fotos stört.
Vorn links (jeweils von links): Hank Jones, Eddie Locke, Horace Silver
Auf der Treppe: Benny Golson, Art Farmer, Chubby Jackson (vorn), Johnny Griffin (rechts hinter Jackson)
Unterhalb der Treppe: Marian McParland
Sitzend: Taft Jordan
Vorn rechts: Milt Hinton, Gerry Mulligan
“For its February 1996 issue, Life magazine sought to recreate history when Gordon Parks was commissioned to photograph eleven of the surviving members of the original photograph on the steps of the brownstone building at 17 West 126th Street in Harlem. Sonny Rollins and Ernie Wilkins were unable to attend, but positioned as they were on that ’great day’ in 1958 were Hank Jones, Eddie Locke, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, Milt Hinton, Chubby Jackson, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Marian McPartland and Taft Jordan Jr. (seated), who had accompanied his trumpeter father to the original shoot and sat on the curb right next to Count Basie. The building, now a roofless shell, had not held up as well as had some of the musicians. Contributing photographer, Gordon Parks, took the picture, a sort of victory lap for the survivors (Okrent, 1996). For Marian McPartland, the only woman survivor, her memories of the day were bitter sweet, and she lamented, ’I was filled with both fond memories and sadness. The house where we stood was all broken down and boarded up’ (Carson, 1996).”
von hier:
http://desguin.net/spip/spip.php?article242
(Locke, Jackson, Jordan und Hinton hätte ich nicht erkannt – bei Silver war ich nicht sicher, die Auflösung ist ja nicht grad super.)
In Life Magazine erschien Parks‘ Foto anscheinend in Farbe:
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