Lona Foote
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Lona Foote (July 19, 1950 – April 15, 1993) was an American photographer who specialised in photographing the avant-garde jazz, dance and art scenes of New York City in the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] Her photographs appeared in The New York Times, Down Beat, Ear and The Village Voice.[2]
Together with the photographer Bob Parent, who died in 1987, Foote is commemorated annually by the Lona Foote/Bob Parent Award for Career Excellence in Photography since 2001 at the Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.[3]
Foote died of breast cancer on April 15, 1993, aged 42, at Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan.[4]
