Hugh Bell (photographer)

Hugh Cecil Lancelot Bell (born June 22, 1927 – October 31, 2012) was an American photographer.

He also photographed fashion and still life images for Esquire, Ebony, Essence, American Visions, and others, as well as taking part in Edward Steichen's "The Family of Man" project.

Bell attended George Washington High School in Manhattan, where he was one of their long distance track stars, and graduated in 1945.

One of Bell's iconic jazz photos is a sad portrait of Charlie Parker at the Open Door club on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Following kidney failure in 2004 (which left him on dialysis), a stroke, and leukemia, Bell died on October 31, 2012.