Billie Holiday, 'Lady In Satin' Recording Sessions, New York City, 1957

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About this photograph

After 16 years recording for other labels, Billie Holiday returned to Columbia Records in late 1957 to create one of her last studio masterpieces, Lady In Satin. Featuring arrangements by renowned bandleader Ray Ellis, Lady In Satin was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. Nearing the end of her turbulent emotional life and career, Billie Holiday took Lady In Satin into a realm of raw emotional truth unprecedented in jazz or popular music. The unvarnished soul of Lady Day is captured verbatim in this iconic candid portrait taken in the recording studio by Don Hunstein in December, 1957.

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11" x 14" - Limited Edition 

16" x 20" - Limited Edition 

20" x 24" - Limited Edition 

30" x 40" - Limited Edition

Print type

Archival pigment print

Paper type

Archival paper

Signature

Estate stamped

About the photographer

Don Hunstein worked as chief staff photographer for Columbia Records for over thirty years. During his time there Hunstein had access to a broad range of musicians from a wide variety of genres. At the time Columbia Records felt it was important to document the cultural history of the music of their time, giving him the opportunity to do more than album covers and publicity shots. Hunstein photographed hundreds of album covers and documented the recording of many of the great albums in music history.

© Don Hunstein. All rights reserved. Not to be reproduced without permission.