Jack Robinson Archive

Jack photographed these nuns, likely from the Ursaline convent, with their matching black umbrellas walking down a rainy New Orleans street in the early 1950s. Silver gelatin print...

Jack observed this street vendor organizing his wares on a bright day in 1950s New Orleans. His baskets appear to be bubbling over with grapes. Silver ...

By the time she was photographed by Jack Robinson on October 30, 1969, few singers had fused gospel and pop with classical music as successfully as Nina Simone...

Cherilyn Sarkisian (b.1946) met Salvatore Bono (1935–1998) in Los Angeles in 1962, and the subsequent relationship evolved into Sonny & Cher, one of the most popular husband-wife acts in popular music history. Sonny had started his career at Specialty Records and then moved on to work with Phil Spector...

The red-headed Suzy Parker (1932–2003), the highest paid and most famous American model in the fifties, was the fourth of four daughters from San Antonio, ...

Boston-born singer-songwriter James Taylor (b.1948) spent his early years in the college town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where his father was dean of the U.N.C. Medical School. His was a musical family and Taylor chose the guitar. In 1966, at the urging of childhood Martha’s Vineyard friend Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar, Taylor moved to New York and they started a band together, The Flying Machine. In 1967, Taylor moved to London and using Kortchmar’s friendship with Peter Asher, found himself the first non-British act signed to Apple. When Jack Robinson photographed the twenty-one year old Taylor...

Jack Robinson photographed a model wearing Christian Dior haute couture in this once-in-a-lifetime shot in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles in 1959. Christian Dior himself had passe...