# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVTvsMoFYXx
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/58040235-hyperallergic-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-28T16:36:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

Despite the many books and exhibitions on photographer Lisette Model, her largest body of work was a well-kept secret: more than a thousand photographs of the East Coast jazz scene taken between the early 1940s and 1959. Model didn’t just dabble in jazz — she dove into it, capturing greats like Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie as they lit up a sparkling musical universe. 

How and why, then, did these images from such an esteemed photographer remain hidden until today? Audrey Sands, associate curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, uncovers this grim tale of government repression in “Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures,” a brilliant and unfortunately timely new photo book.

Read Julia Curl’s full review through the link in bio.
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1 - Lisette Model, “Ella Fitzgerald, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 5-7” (1956) (© Lisette Model Foundation; courtesy Eakins Press Foundation/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

2 -  Lisette Model, “Billie Holiday Rehearsal, Maely Bartholomew and Willian Dufty’s home, New York City, May 30, 1956” (© Lisette Model Foundation; courtesy Eakins Press Foundation/Lisette Model fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives)

3 & 4 - Lisette Model, “Louis Armstrong, Basin Street East, New York” (c. 1954–56) (© Lisette Model Foundation, courtesy Eakins Press Foundation/The Metropolitan Museum of Art via Art Resource, New York)

#LisetteModel #Photography #EllaFitzgerald #BillieHoliday #LouisArmstrong

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ellafitzgerald, billieholiday, photography, louisarmstrong, lisettemodel

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