A Sojourn in Paradise

Jack Robinson made his name as a much-sought-after fashion and celebrity photographer during the 1960s and early 1970s. This volume features more than one hundred photographs taken by the artist, accompanied by detailed commentary about Robinson's life in New Orleans and excerpts from interviews with the people who knew him.

Howard Philips Smith grew up on a farm in rural Mississippi and attended the University of Southern Mississippi and the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon. He began writing about pre-AIDS New Orleans and the gay ball scene during the early 1980s, the so-called Golden Age of Gay Carnival. He is author of Unveiling the Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans , published by University Press of MIssissippi, and coauthor of Southern Decadence in New Orleans . He lives in Los Angeles with his husband and three cats.