Drum Magazine Issue 3 | Page 19

H Leonard is the a living legend, HERMAN LEONARD THE AGE OF JAZZ B orn in Allentown, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1923, Herman Leonard was eight years old when he walked into a darkroom and saw naked pictures of his brother’s wife developing in a tray. It was 1931 with no Playboy magazine or anything like that around and the nudity shocked him. Then he said, “wait a minute, if he can do that with a camera, why can’t I?” »