Music Photographer Jim Cummins

Submitted by Sarah Kerson on Thu, 3 Mar 2016, 1:18pm

Meena Ardebili speaks with photographer Jim Cummins. He's best known for the album covers of Jimi Hendrix, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Janis Joplin, and many others. He has a new show opening at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in SoHo, where select photographs from his large body of work will be displayed. In this interview, Cummins talks about his start in the arts, and how his background in arts influenced his start in photography. He also speaks to the similarities and differences between photojournalism and music photojournalism, how he feels about the digital age of photography, and his favorite work experiences so far.

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Thursday, March 3, 2016
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