Ave Pildas (born September 16, 1939) is an American photographer and designer. His early photographs of jazz musicians, including Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane and Dave Brubeck were first published in DownBeat magazine in the 1960s. In 1971, Pildas began working at Capitol Records in Hollywood as an art director and designed and photographed album covers for Capitol's recording artists, including The Road Is No Place for a Lady by Cass Elliot and the MGM Records Archetypes Series, featuring The Velvet Underground, Billie Holliday, Charlie Parker, and Joy to the World by Hoyt Axton. Two books of his photographs have been published: Art Deco Los Angeles, published by Harper & Row in 1977, and Movie Palaces, Originally, published by Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. in 1980, second print