"It's probably easier to ask me whom haven't I photographed then to tell you who I have. But if there's a historic moment in American music, social or cultural history that you're curious about, chances are I was there or have photographs of somebody who was."
- Chuck Stewart
For more than seven decades, Chuck Stewart (1927-2017) chronicled the people, performances, and defining moments that shaped American music and culture. Best known for his extraordinary photographs of jazz legends, Stewart created an archive of more than 800,000 negatives and produced images for over 2,000 album covers. His camera documented everyone from Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, James Brown, and Ray Charles to The Beatles, preserving an unparalleled visual history of the twentieth century. Today, his photographs are celebrated in museums, archives, publications, documentaries, and private collections worldwide.