Farewell Lincoln & Leonard

The past week has brought the deaths of singer Abbey Lincoln (80) and jazz photographer Herman Leonard (87). Resident in New Orleans from the early 90s, Leonard lost thousands of prints in hurricane Katrina but luckily his negatives were kept elsewhere and preserved. Surprisingly for such a revered name, his first exhibition was not until 1988 in London and only subsequently in New York, where he had taken many of his famed photographs in the 40s and 50s.