Photographer Jamie Hodgson, best known for his portraits of jazz icons such as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, died at the weekend after a battle with cancer, the National Theatre in London, which is currently exhibiting his work, announced on Tuesday. He was 76.
A Londoner all his life, Hodgson began his career in 1950 with fashion shoots and pictures of comedy stars such as Frankie Howerd and Harry Secombe.
His black-and-white portraits taken in the 1950s and 1960s of Armstrong, Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and others are on show at the National until January 28. — AFP
