Dream Street & the Jazz Loft Project

DREAM STREET & THE JAZZ LOFT PROJECT.  As part of the Wisconsin Book Festival, author Sam Stephenson will lecture on the new edition of poignant selected images from famed Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh project.  The loft was the late-night haunt of musicians, including some of the biggest names in jazz—Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk among them. Here, from 1957 to 1965, he made nearly 40,000 photographs and approximately 4,000 hours of recordings of musicians. Smith found solace in the chaotic, somnambulistic world of the loft and its artists, and he turned his documentary impulses away from work on his major Pittsburgh photo essay and toward his new surroundings.  Arts+Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston St.  4:30pm.  Free event.