Louis Ouzer, 88; Photographer of Celebrated Musicians
Louis Ouzer, 88, who photographed Louis Armstrong, Marian Anderson, Igor Stravinsky, Itzhak Perlman and other noted visitors to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., died Thursday in a Rochester hospital of complications from a recent heart attack.
His 1979 book “Contemporary Musicians in Photographs” extended his reputation as a photographer of performers.
The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Ouzer grew up poor in Rochester. As a teenager, he befriended neighbor Joseph Schiff, a photographer who played viola with the Rochester Philharmonic. Ouzer became Schiff’s photographic assistant in a studio near the Eastman School, and they worked together until 1947.
Ouzer became unofficial photographer for the school and the Rochester Philharmonic.
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