{"id":613,"date":"2014-08-06T20:46:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=613"},"modified":"2024-05-22T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:05:52","slug":"jack-van-camp-blues-musicians-photographs-donated-sousa-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2014\/08\/06\/jack-van-camp-blues-musicians-photographs-donated-sousa-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Van Camp Photographs of Blues Musicians Donated to the Sousa Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4385\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Jack-Van-Camp-Photographs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4385\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Jack-Van-Camp-Photographs-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Jack-Van-Camp-Photographs-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Jack-Van-Camp-Photographs.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Time Sarah at the Blind Pig, January 13, 1996 (top left), Luther Johnson at the Highdive, July 7, 1999 (top right), and Junior Wells at the Blind Pig, March 23, 1996 (bottom)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jack Van Camp&#8217;s photographs of blues and gospel musicians who performed at various venues throughout Champaign, IL\u00a0 between 1994 and 2001 were recently donated to the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.\u00a0 Van Camp&#8217;s [spelling corrected 10\/4\/16] black and white photographs not only document the diverse local and national blues and gospel ensembles and solo acts that frequently performed at Champaign&#8217;s Blind Pig and Highdive, but also Central Illinois&#8217; vital African-American music scene at the end of the twentieth century.\u00a0 The Jack Van Camp collection of photographs include carefully crafted 8&#215;10 and 5&#215;7 images of the Blind Boys of Alabama, Mighty Blues Kings, Junior Wells, Luther Johnson, &#8220;Big Time&#8221; Sarah Streeter, Lonnie Brooks, Robert Lockwood Junior and many other nationally recognized musicians.\u00a0 As a self-taught photographer who based his artful approach\u00a0 on the work of jazz photographer, Herman Leonard, Mr. Van Camp&#8217;s [spelling corrected 10\/4\/16] images capture\u00a0 the intense personal connections these musicians had with their music and their Urbana-Champaign audiences.\u00a0 The collection is open to researchers during normal operating hours.\u00a0 For further information call 217-244-9309.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Van Camp&#8217;s photographs of blues and gospel musicians who performed at various venues throughout Champaign, IL\u00a0 between 1994 and 2001 were recently donated to the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.\u00a0 Van Camp&#8217;s [spelling corrected 10\/4\/16] black and white photographs not only document the diverse local and national blues and gospel ensembles and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4717,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/4717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}