{"id":188,"date":"2020-04-11T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T12:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/czbrown\/?p=188"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:31","slug":"the-peto-collection-louis-satchmo-armstrong-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-peto-collection-louis-satchmo-armstrong-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peto Collection &#8211; Louis &#8216;Satchmo&#8217; Armstrong, 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P358_44-Louis-Armstrong-Empress-Hall-London-1956.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-189 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P358_44-Louis-Armstrong-Empress-Hall-London-1956-996x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"996\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P358_44-Louis-Armstrong-Empress-Hall-London-1956-996x1024.jpg 996w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P358_44-Louis-Armstrong-Empress-Hall-London-1956-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P358_44-Louis-Armstrong-Empress-Hall-London-1956-768x789.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P358_44-Louis-Armstrong-Empress-Hall-London-1956-1494x1536.jpg 1494w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P358_44-Louis-Armstrong-Empress-Hall-London-1956.jpg 1868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jazz trumpeteer \u2018Satchmo\u2019 was just one musician Peto photographed during his career, often capturing them before or just after a performance,\u00a0as with this one taken in 1956 at the Empress Ballroom, London.<\/p>\n<p>Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and \u201860s. His collection is a chronicle of an age \u2013 a spirited mix of arts and culture, politics, war and peace, social documentary and the emergence of twentieth celebrity culture. Peto had a very personal humanist style, seeking to record \u2018the basic serenity of the human form\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The collection was gifted to the University of Dundee by Peto\u2019s stepson Michael Fodor and comprises some 130,000 prints and negatives. It is held by the University Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz trumpeteer \u2018Satchmo\u2019 was just one musician Peto photographed during his career, often capturing them before or just after a performance,\u00a0as with this one taken in 1956 at the Empress Ballroom, London. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and \u201860s. His collection is a chronicle of an age \u2013 a spirited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,20],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-music","category-photography","tag-peto-collection"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6593,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/6593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}