Eli paperboy reed and biography
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Eli Reed
This article is about the American photographer. For the American singer, see Eli "Paperboy" Reed.
Ellis (Eli) Reed (born ) is an American photographer and photojournalist.[1][2] Reed was the first full-time black photographer at Magnum Agency and is the author of several books, including Beirut: City of Regrets and Black In America.
Early life and education
[edit]Reed was raised in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.[1] He took his first photograph at the age of 10, documenting his mother by the Christmas tree.[3] He earned a degree in illustration in from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts,[4] but attributes his direction as a photographer to mentor Donald Greenhaus rather than to formal studies.[5] In –83 he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, studying political science and urban affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.[4][6]
Career
[edit]Reed became a freelance
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Eli "Paperboy" Reed
American singer and songwriter (born )
Musical artist
Eli "Paperboy" Reed (born as Eli Husock) is an American singer and songwriter. After graduating from Brookline High School in , he moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi. After spending a year in Clarksdale, he enrolled at The University of Chicago to study sociology. While in Chicago, he hosted a radio show called "We Got More Soul" on WHPK and played organ and piano in the South Side Chicago church of Mitty Collier. After one year of study in Chicago, he returned home to Boston to focus on music, recording his first skiva Sings "Walkin' and Talkin' for My Baby" and Other Smash Hits!
After his album release and his live shows, Reed signed with Somerville, Massachusetts based record label, Q Division Records. He recorded his first skiva of original material, Roll With You, in late with Q Division producer Ed Valauskas. The skiva was released in , and the next two years saw Reed garner a national and in
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20 years of Eli “paperboy” reed
“It’s been twenty years since I’ve had a real job”, laughs Eli Paperboy Reed from his Brooklyn apartment. In some ways, he’s not joking, though those two decades have been chock full of the round-the-clock hustle that it takes to make a career in the fickle music industry. Indeed, Reed has found a way to maintain a famously high standard for both his critically acclaimed albums (nine and counting) and his notoriously sweaty, searing and soulful live sets. None of this was a foregone conclusion.
Reed cut his teeth in the early s, first in the juke joints of Clarksdale, MS where he moved after graduating high school in , and then in the southside Chicago church of Soul legend Mitty Collier. By though, Reed was back in his hometown of Boston, driving a van delivering flowers in the mornings (“the best job I ever had”) and spending his free afternoons busking in Harvard Square, Cambridge for tips. He put in the proverbial 10, hours playing guitar,