Jim Cummins (photographer)

• Comment: I can't see a lot of improvement unfortunately. The Long Island Newsday have simply copied a press release from PR web, which isn't journalistic secondary coverage. The job of photojournalists is to take photos, simply referencing to their photos isn't sufficient proof of general notability. Sionk (talk) 14:22, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

• Comment: As others have said, it's a close thing, but this article currently hangs on only one decent source - the NYT article. Is there any other substantial news or book coverage about him and/or his work? Sionk (talk) 19:48, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

• Comment: If the list of musicians he's taken album cover photographs for could be trimmed down and made to include the actual albums the photographs where the covers of, I would push this to mainspace and fix the other issues myself. I just don't know enough about these musicians/albums to know what is notable enough to keep listed and what isn't. TKK! bark with me if you're my dog! 17:12, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

• Comment: This person seems notable, but like so many articles, the text seems too promotional. It's almost like it was written for public relations purposes rather than for the purpose of making Wikipedia better. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 02:33, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

• Comment: I recommend rewriting the entire first paragraph and remove much of the weasel terms such as is globally well known from the iconic photographs", "publishing industry's leading magazines." This would make the article sound less promotional. Also trim down the section "The Music Album Covers Years" and just highlight about ten of the more notable albums he's photographed for.
  The sections "Early life" and "Photography" are unreferenced. Please include references for these sections. EagerToddler39 (talk) 18:40, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

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Jim Cummins (born: 1944) is an American photojournalist whose work during the 1960's and 1970's involved covering many of that era's legendary rock, rhythm and blues, soul, jazz, country/western and gospel performers. Over 900 music albums from that era, many of which went Gold, Platinum and Diamond, used Cummins' photographs as their album covers, and many of his other photographs of celebrated music performers of that era were published as magazine covers and in feature articles about these artists in magazines such as Newsweek (eg., cover of Newsweek, June 22, 1970) , Rolling Stone and Life Magazine (feature article, October 16, 1970). Cummins covered the the world of sports for the NBA[2], the New York Times and Newsday.

Early life

Born in 1944 in New York City, Cummins attended New York City's High School of Music & Art and studied art, drawing and painting at the New York City's Museum of Modern Art, at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and at the Art Students League of New York. Jim served from 1961 through 1965 in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Combat Illustrator before beginning his career in music and sports photojournalism in 1965.