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Herb Snitzer

Died
December 31, 2022
Age
90 years
Cause
Parkinson's disease

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Herb Snitzer, 90, American photographer, complications from Parkinson's disease.

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Herb Snitzer (né Herbert D. Snitzer; November 1932 – December 31, 2022) was an American photographer who photographed jazz musicians in the 1950s and 1960s. He lived in St. Petersburg, Florida and opened his own gallery in 2014. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts,[citation needed] Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Florida) and the William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum.

Snitzer died from complications of Parkinson's disease on December 31, 2022, at the age of 90.

Publications

Books by Snitzer

  • Living at Summerhill: A Photographic Documentary on A. S. Neill's Pioneering School. MacMillan, 1968. ISBN 978-0020157502.
  • Today is for Children: Numbers Can Wait. MacMillan, 1972.
  • Jazz: A Visual Journey. Notables, 1999.
  • Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir. University Press of Mississippi, 2011.

Books with others

  • The New York I Know. By Marya Mannes. Lippincott, 1961. Photographs by Snitzer.
  • Reprise, The Extraordinary Revival of Early Music. With Joel Cohen. Little Brown, 1985.

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