Jessica Levant’s jazz photos among highlights at Playland-on-Balboa fair
After publishing two books of photographs of Bay Area jazz and blues musicians, Jessica Levant got the impulse to elevate her documentary pictures into fine art.
Working with one of her standard color digital images of electric bassist Tom Lander, she replaced the musicians in the background with fake leaves. Then she changed it from color to black-and-white.
That image took honorable mention in an international art contest, so Levant began a series of jazz silhouettes that are making their framed debut in the gallery at Noise, a jazz-centric record store on Balboa Street in San Francisco.
The exhibit opens Saturday, Aug.