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Author of two books about the gifted but erratic World War II Life magazine photo-essayist Gene Smith, Sam Stephenson has dedicated much of his life to tracing the artist’s career. Smith ran away from his high-paying job, his family, and his comfortable upstate New York home to settle into a bare Manhattan loft from the mid-1950s and into the ’60s. There, he photographed and audio recorded some of the biggest names in American music who happened to gather every night to practice and play in the loft next door. Smith shot tens of thousands of photographs of the musicians and he compiled hundreds of hours of audio tape of their music. Stephenson has written the books, The Jazz Loft Project and Gene Smith’s Sink.
Michael Glab goes one-on-one with Bloomington’s most fascinating people every Thursday at 5:30pm. Tune in for a bonus feature, Big Talk Extra, every Monday on the Daily Local News at 5:00pm for added chat from the previous week’s show.
