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Reid Miles was born in 1927 in New York City. He was a photographer and graphic designer, best known for his work with Blue Note Records. He was the art director for the label from 1956 to 1967, and his iconic album covers helped define the look of jazz music during that period. Miles attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated in 1950. After graduation, he worked as a freelance photographer and graphic designer, and in 1956 he was hired by Blue Note Records. He was the art director for the label for 11 years, and during that time he designed over 500 album covers. His work was characterized by bold, minimalist designs, often featuring a single photograph or illustration. Miles left Blue Note in 1967 and went on to work for other labels, including Columbia Records and Atlantic Records. He also worked as a freelance photographer and designer for magazines such as Esquire and GQ. Miles died in 1993 at the age of 66. He was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2002.

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1976

He later directed television commercials, which garnered him a Clio Award in 1976.

1971

As a photographer, Miles moved to Hollywood, California in 1971 and operated a studio under the name Reid Miles Inc. Many of his most famous shots were elaborate montages of people and group photographs, reminiscent of Norman Rockwell. Several of these were shot for record album covers, including Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits and The Basement Tapes.

1967

Lion's retirement as a record producer in 1967 coincided with the end of Miles' connection with Blue Note. "Fifty Bucks an album...they loved it, thought it was modern, they thought it went with the music...one or two colors to work with at that time and some outrageous graphics!"

1950

After working in New York City in the early 1950s for John Hermansader and Esquire magazine and Margaret Hockaday's advertising firm, Miles was hired in his own right around 1955 by Francis Wolff of the jazz record label Blue Note to design album covers when the label began releasing their recordings on 12" LPs. Miles designed over five hundred covers, frequently incorporating the session photographs of Francis Wolff and, later, his own photographs, although many of his later designs dispensed entirely with photographs.

1927

Reid Miles (July 4, 1927 – February 2, 1993) was an American graphic designer and photographer best known for his work for Blue Note Records in the 1950s and 1960s.

Reid Miles was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 4, 1927 but, following the Stock Market Crash and the separation of his parents, moved with his mother to Long Beach, California, in 1929.

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