Remembering Leo Smit (1921-1999)

Leo Smit as Photographer

All photographs on this page courtesy of Nils Vigeland on behalf of the Leo Smit estate. Please click on an image (except for the self portrait) to see its fuller version.

Leonard Bernstein Flyer for an exhibit of Leo Smit's photographs of Rome at the Opus 5 Art Studio, Solana Beach, Calif., January 1980

Leo Smit was an avid and talented photographer. His large collection of photographs (to be deposited at the New York Public Library) contains many images of the famous musicians with whom he was friends as well as pictures taken during his many travels. Leo Smit's photographs of Rome were displayed at the Opus 5 Art Studio in January 1980. Smit also presented slides from his Latin American State Department tour at a February 23, 1969 concert at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Leo Smit self-portrait, Summer 1967

Children Canyon de Chelley, Arizona

April 2000 Music Library Staff musique@acsu.buffalo.edu http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/music/exhibits/smit/photographer.html