Chris Strachwitz Photos
Chris Strachwitz, founder of both Arhoolie Records and the Arhoolie Foundation, has been documenting vernacular music since the 1950’s. An avid photographer, he has taken over 25,000 photographs, which he recently donated to the Arhoolie Foundation. The Arhoolie Foundation is now in the process of digitizing and cataloging them. Here are just a few examples.
D.L. Menard
Bill Monroe, New Orleans, 1985
Mance Lipscomb at the Greek Theatre
Clifton Chenier & Bonnie Raitt, 1974
Canray Fontenot
Sacred Steel
Valerio Longoria and Lydia Mendoza
Lightning Hopkins, Berkeley, CA 1967
James Campbell, Bell Ray, Beauford Ray, George Bell
Hector Duhon, Octa Clark
Rockin' Dopsie, 1981, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
Clifton Chenier, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
D.L. Menard, 1982
Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Quartet 1985
Ralph Stanley and Roy Lee Centers, 1972
Abner Jay
Vern Williams & Ray Park
Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, 1972
Michael Doucet
Calvin Carriere, Michael Doucet, Marc Savoy
Canray Fontenot
Isidro Lopez
1963
Cora Lee Carter Jackson, John Jackson and Cora Beth Johnson - 1967
Juke Boy Bonner - Houston 1967
unknown musicians
Lydia Mendoza
Lydia Mendoza
Onward
Bill White and Rose Maddox 1982
Boozoo Chavis, 1987
Chris and Alex Moore
Don Santiago Jimenez and Flaco Jimenez, 1982
Eureka Brass Band
Tony Delafose, Geno Delafose, and John Delaphose - 1982
King Louis H. Narcisse, 1963
Lowell Fulson -1963
Lydia Mendoza 1982
Morris Ardoin, Gustav Ardoin, Alphonse Bois Sec Ardoin - 1973
Oscar Telles, Flaco Jimenez, Peter Rowan, 1988
unknown musicians
Punch Miller, 1960
Queen Ida 1982
Santiago Jimenez Jr. & Ann Savoy, 1982
Steve Jordan, 1982
Tohono O'Odham 1963
