Jimmy Baynes
Nightlife and Event Photographs of Cleveland's African American Community, 1950s-60s
Silver prints (24)
Each 10 x 8 inches
With related ephemera including a souvenir booklet and Baynes' business card.
With related ephemera including a souvenir booklet and Baynes' business card.
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This dynamic collection of images captures Cleveland's vibrant African-American community with portraits of the Miss AMVET pageant contestants, nightclub and cabaret musicians and performers, local politicians, and others. In the...
This dynamic collection of images captures Cleveland's vibrant African-American community with portraits of the Miss AMVET pageant contestants, nightclub and cabaret musicians and performers, local politicians, and others.
In the 1950s, Cleveland resident James “Jimmy” Baynes began supplementing his income as a mail courier and railway laborer by photographing local events, primarily music-related. He would go on to open Baynes Foto Service and photographed the likes of Aretha Franklin, Louis Armstrong, and Memphis Slim, among many other famous jazz, R&B, and rock musicians. After three decades of photography, his work was shown in a group show in Brooklyn just months before he passed the same year in 2010. His photographs can be seen in the collections of the LaMott Robinson Museum, the North East Ohio Popular Music Archives, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Museum Library and Archives in Cleveland.
Through his studio and commercial pursuits, Baynes created a vibrant body of work which tells a rich and specific story about Black public life in the midwest in the 1950s-70s.
In the 1950s, Cleveland resident James “Jimmy” Baynes began supplementing his income as a mail courier and railway laborer by photographing local events, primarily music-related. He would go on to open Baynes Foto Service and photographed the likes of Aretha Franklin, Louis Armstrong, and Memphis Slim, among many other famous jazz, R&B, and rock musicians. After three decades of photography, his work was shown in a group show in Brooklyn just months before he passed the same year in 2010. His photographs can be seen in the collections of the LaMott Robinson Museum, the North East Ohio Popular Music Archives, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Museum Library and Archives in Cleveland.
Through his studio and commercial pursuits, Baynes created a vibrant body of work which tells a rich and specific story about Black public life in the midwest in the 1950s-70s.