The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced

Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.

The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced
Louis Armstrong, Basin Street East, New York (c. 1954–56) (© Lisette Model Foundation, courtesy Eakins Press Foundation/The Metropolitan Museum of Art via Art Resource, New York)