Chuck Stewart was born in Henrietta, Texas, and grew up in Tucson, Arizona.
12 Facts About Chuck Stewart
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Chuck Stewart's father, Hugh Paris Stewart, was a chef while his mother, Anne Harris, was a domestic worker.
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Chuck Stewart received a Kodak Brownie camera as a present when he was 13 years old and used it that same day to take photos of Marian Anderson, who had come to visit his school Dunbar.
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Chuck Stewart attended and graduated from Tucson Senior High School May 1945.
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Chuck Stewart attended Ohio University as a photography major, one of the only two universities in the United States that offered the program at the collegiate level and the only one that would then accept African American students.
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Chuck Stewart graduated from Ohio University with a BFA degree in 1948.
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Chuck Stewart graduated in 1949, was drafted into the Army and worked as a military photographer, photographing atomic bomb tests in 1952.
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Chuck Stewart's work appeared on more than 2,000 albums and in publications including Esquire, Paris Match and The New York Times, as well as in the Encyclopedia of Jazz by jazz journalist Leonard Feather.
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Chuck Stewart worked for Chess Records in Chicago.
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In conjunction with Stewart's recognition with the Milt Hinton Award for Excellence in Jazz Photography, Jazz at Lincoln Center presented an exhibition titled Looking at the Music: The Jazz Photography of Chuck Stewart, which ran from November 2008 to February 2009.
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In 2014,25 of Chuck Stewart's photographs documenting the recording of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme were inducted into the Smithsonian.
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Chuck Stewart died in Teaneck on January 20,2017, at age 89.