Billie Holiday Cooking A Steak For Her Dog?

Art

Giants of Jazz

This 1949 photo released by Herman Leonard Photography, shows Billie Holiday cooking a steak for her dog Mister in her apartment in Harlem. The photographer, Herman Leonard, said she came to the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron and ‘First I thought, this is the maid.’ But it was Holiday, one of the greatest voices of modern time, whom Leonard would continue to photograph throughout her life.

(AP Photo/Herman Leonard Photography, LLC., CTSIMAGES)

One Response to Billie Holiday Cooking A Steak For Her Dog?

  1. This photo is so beautiful! It is hard to imagine a dog, so loving, so faithful, so patient that he could stand beside his mistress cooking a steak for him.
    I have written about this photo on my other blog at http://fido-and-fifi.blogspot.com. I have given my readers the link to come here, but if I could use the actual photo, I would love it. Thanks, Martha Sutton

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