Bert Stern Models with Dogs on Leashes Vogue, June 1971 Sorry I forgot to post this great shot on #NationalDogDay
aka Deny Fear 📷 Esther Bubley Man on Platform, c. 1951 Profile: Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window "And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling." - Bruce Chatwin
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Bert Stern Models with Dogs on Leashes Vogue, June 1971 Sorry I forgot to post this great shot on #NationalDogDay
Robert Morse & Donna Sanders by Bert Stern Vogue, December 1961 Thanks to Vogue’s captions for making my alt text more informative. I don’t know tulle from houndstooth.
Diane Arbus Glamour, May 1948
Phil Stern's shot of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong became the cover of the LP With Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis & Buddy Rich What a lineup! youtube.com/watch?v=Vh7o...
Ray Charles by Phil Stern, 1975 This was at the recording sessions with Cleo Laine for Porgy & Bess. youtube.com/watch?v=aqBd...
Anita Ekberg by Phil Stern, 1955 One of my favourite Stern shots.
Phil Stern Marlon Brando at the 1954 Academy Awards Ceremony Brando won - & accepted - the Best Actor Award, for On The Waterfront
Phil Stern's shot of Nat King Cole at a Hollywood nightclub, c. 1940. Today we're celebrating the great photographer's birthday 🎂
Sidney Poitier, Susan Strasberg, Stanley Kramer & George Stevens Jr. by Phil Stern They're en route to the 1967 Moscow International Film Festival. A fabulous photograph!
Phil Stern Cole Porter, Audrey Hepburn, Irving Berlin & Don Hartman, 1954 This was at the premiere of A Star is Born at the Pantages Theatre, September 29, 1954
Phil Stern Humphrey Bogart on the set of Blood Alley, 1955. The lead role was supposed to be Robert Mitchum, but he was fired after an altercation with director William Wellman. Bogie took these shots on set, but he asked for too much money, & the role went to John Wayne!
A remarkable portrait of Dorothy Dandridge by Phil Stern This was on the set of Porgy & Bess, 1959
Phil Stern Orson Welles filming The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942
Gene Lester's shot of a bunch of talented photographers, from 1946: Loren Smith, Gene Lester, Sprague Talbot, Earl Thiesen, Martha Swope, Will Connell, John Engstead, Ralph Crane Standing: Phil Stern, Peter Stackpole, Jack Albin One woman there, & it looks like they have her taking notes!
Katharine Hepburn's favourite photo of Spencer Tracy was by Phil Stern. Here's a great shot of Kate & Spencer in her townhouse by John Bryson, 1986
Richard C. Miller captures Phil Stern's photo-shoot with David Niven, c. 1958, turning it into a mini-film noir
What an eye Phil Stern had! I love this shot of Rita Moreno during a rehearsal for West Side Story, 1961
My favourite Phil Stern portrait is this one of James Dean, from 1955. The two became friends after Stern narrowly missed hitting Dean's motorcycle with his car.
Remembering photographer Phil Stern on his birthday 🎂 📷 Brett Ratner "I was never interested in the glamour. I was interested in the tears and agony behind it.
Kitty Carlisle is in front, with Harold J. Kennedy, Vivian Blaine, Ruth McDevitt & Hayden Rorke, in a shot from Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky 📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1948 NYPL digital collection
Kitty Carlisle & Moss Hart in Times Square 📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1959 "She was known for her grace & charm, but by her own account she was slightly eccentric, a trait she treasured because she believed it gave her a lot of leeway." - Marilyn Berger
Remembering Kitty Carlisle on her birthday 🎂 📷 Philippe Halsman, 1958 Naturally, the cat refused to jump.
In a New York Times article from July 20, 1967, Irene Papas talks about "the ridiculous little bunch of half-educated colonels who took over the country". Papas & Melina Mercouri & Mikis Theodorakis were brave patriots! www.nytimes.com/1967/07/20/a... 🎁
Irene Papas as Agave, in Michael Cacoyannis's production of The Bacchae at the Circle in the Square Theatre, NY, 1980 NYPL digital collection
Irene Papas by Laurent Peters Athens, 1996 "I claim that I act because I need to eat. I cry and I eat. But why should I eat simply because I cry well? I should eat because I am hungry."
Irene Papas on the set of Michael Cacoyannis's Zorba the Greek, 1964 The still photographer on the set was Sergio Strizzi. What a wonderful shot!
Remembering Irene Papas on her birthday 🎂 📷 Eve Arnold, London, 1978 "Irene Papas is a woman, a lady, a great actress. We do not have many like her. Perhaps that's why she doesn't appear in many movies; ordinary actors have trouble sharing the screen with her." - Roger Ebert
Joan Fontaine with Humphrey Bogart in a radio performance of A Farewell to Arms 📷 Ruth Orkin, 1950
W. H. Auden at El Teatro Cafe in Venice 📷 Ruth Orkin, 1951
Ruth Orkin Leonard Bernstein in the Green Room at Carnegie Hall, 1950 They never took pictures of Toscanini like this.
Here's Jinx Allen, aka Ninalee Craig, in a photo published with her Toronto Globe & Mail obituary from May 2018. "She was a real force. Most people said they never met anyone quite like her. She enjoyed everything, was always engaged and remained curious." 📷 Fernando Morales, 2011
The whole project seems to have been a hoot from start to finish. Here are the two friends together: Ruth Orkin & Jinx Allen (aka Nina Lee Craig).
Here's the money shot, one of the most famous photographs of the period. 📷 Jinx Allen by Ruth Orkin, Florence, 1951
Jinx asks directions in a great shot by Orkin. Hard to believe this was all done on the fly, and that it's not a careful set-up with specially cast extras.
This is one of my favourite shots, taken at the Loggia dei Lanzi next to the Uffizi Gallery. It's even more impressive when you know the subject of the statue: the Rape of the Sabine Women by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne. 📷 Jinx Allen by Ruth Orkin, 1951
It's all about post-war geo-politics and gender roles, but it's also a light-hearted story about a young woman's historical and literary fantasies. Allen imagined herself as Beatrice from the Divine Comedy, walking through Dante's Florence.
Ruth Orkin took a series of photographs of her friend Jinx Allen for a 1951 Cosmopolitan feature on a woman travelling alone in Florence.
Remembering Ruth Orkin on her birthday 🎂 📷 Don't know who took this photo, but Orkin's camera is a Kodak Retina "If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them – then I’ve accomplished my purpose."
Just been to Lidl. Why was everyone staring at me like that? Maybe a feather allergy? Image by Eddy Brofferio via @dean.bsky.social
Diane Arbus Glamour, May 1948
Henry Fonda by Chadwick Hall GQ, March 1965
youtu.be/vjSX7L53Lxk?... "Talk about your burgers to go!"
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The Sopranos, season 1, episode 1 September 17, 2000 David Chase, dir.
Gaston Paris, Merry-go-round [Self-Portrait], Paris, mid-30s
Red Green show is one of the greatest things Canada has ever produced, and Graham Greene was a delight every time he appeared
That Francis Wolff photo of Clifford Jordan was taken during the recording of Horace Silver's 1958 album Further Explorations. Jordan (1931) & Silver (1928) share a birthday today! 🎂🎂 bsky.app/profile/dean...
Remembering Clifford Jordan on his birthday 🎂 📷 Francis Wolff, 1958 "Jordan was one of the few modern tenor saxophonists to use Lester Young as an inspiration, & his playing was always extraordinarily musical, never relying on secondhand ideas." - Peter Watrous www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKxx...
alright alright! Let's do this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8jF...
Val Wilmer Horace Silver, on a bus near Central Park, NY, Summer 1971 This is from a wonderful trove of Wilmer's jazz photos at the Victoria & Albert Museum website.
On Horace Silver's birthday, I'm listening to his 1958 LP Further Explorations The great photo on the cover is, of course, by Francis Wolff. album.link/y/OLAK5uy_mk...
Horace Silver at the Open Door 📷 Francis Wolff, 1955 "At a time when the refined, quiet &, to some, bloodless style known as cool jazz was all the rage, he was hailed as a leader of the back-to-basics movement that came to be called hard bop." - Peter Keepnews www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuOw...
Remembering Horace Silver on his birthday 🎂 📷 Francis Wolff, 1962 "Unlike many bebop pianists, Silver emphasized melodic simplicity over harmonic complexity; his improvisations, while sophisticated, were never so intricate as to be inaccessible." www.youtube.com/watch?v=79mk...
William Carqueville Lippincott's September NYPL digital collection
Century September 1896 NYPL digital collection
Louis D. Fancher Scribner's September, c. 1907-09 NYPL digital collection
On Seiji Ozawa's birthday I'm listening to his 1975 album of Janacek & Lutoslawski, with the Chicago Symphony. The wonderful cover photos are by Richard Rankin. album.link/y/OLAK5uy_l-...
Seiji Ozawa by Manuel Litran, Paris, 1983 Haruki Murakami says something wonderful in his introduction to his book with Ozawa: "It sets my mind at ease to know that there is someone like him in the world." We miss him very much 💔
Seiji Ozawa at his home on Park Road in Toronto, during his tenure as the conductor of the Toronto Symphony, October 1968. He was with the TSO from 1965-69. 📷 Norman James Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique youtube.com/watch?v=kOL7...
An outstanding portrait of Seiji Ozawa by Jerome De Perlinghi, 2001 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery In 2002 Ozawa became the principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera. Later that decade, though, & until his death in February 2024, illness very much slowed his conducting career.
Seiji Ozawa by Jack Robinson, 1960s Ozawa had a number of mentors early in his career: Charles Munch at Tanglewood, Herbert von Karajan in Berlin, & Leonard Bernstein in New York. Bernstein is the obvious model here, I think.
Seiji Ozawa & Haruki Murakami by Nobuyoshi Araki, 2016 I love Haruki Murakami's book Absolutely on Music, Conversations With Seiji Ozawa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolut... Ozawa says about Murakami, "He doesn’t just love music, he *knows* music."
Remembering Seiji Ozawa on his birthday 🎂 📷 Manuel Litran, Paris, 1983 "I feel like I'm driving a Rolls-Royce," he once said about his Boston Symphony musicians, "I just push the pedal and steer." www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd5V...
Sendak was a staple of my childhood, and Chicken Soup With Rice was a household fave. But it wasn't until I had my own child that I discovered the phenomenal Carole King version!
September, from Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup With Rice, 1962 In September for a while I will ride a crocodile down the chicken soupy Nile.
Art Pepper & Bob Cooper playing with Stan Kenton's band, 1950. Another shot by Bob Willoughby. Pepper finished second only to Charlie Parker as Best Alto Saxophonist in the DownBeat magazine Readers Poll of 1952. What a band! youtube.com/watch?v=EAsI...
Art Pepper at the LA Museum of Art 📷 Ray Avery, 1954 "If I can last till I'm 65, there's no question that I'll be the new voice, the first time a white guy has been the inspiration for the whole jazz world" Pepper lost most of the 50s & 60s to drugs & jail; he died in 1982 at 56
Art Pepper by Andy Freeberg, 1980 "I didn't want to be with white people because I had nothing in common with them. I wanted to get high and wiggle and shake and play my horn. And I liked the way blacks played."
On Art Pepper's birthday I'm listening to Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section. Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass & Philly Joe Jones on drums A great William Caxton portrait on the cover. youtube.com/watch?v=16Oo...
Remembering Art Pepper on his birthday 🎂 📷 Bob Willoughby, 1950 "There was Pres, then Bird and then Trane. And then there's going to be Pepper. I felt that way all my life. I've never doubted it." From 1964, "Jazz Casual": youtube.com/watch?v=jn8V...
Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe by Boris Chaliapin, 1960 "The arts of the theater unite to make an enchanting modern comment on the legendary past." - Howard Taubman youtube.com/watch?v=Rr3q...
Alan Jay Lerner with his writing partner Frederick Loewe, in a Yousuf Karsh portrait, made April 10, 1959 "The names Lerner and Loewe were linked at the top of the entertainment world for more than a quarter of a century." - Richard Pearson
Alan Jay Lerner with his eighth, & final, wife, Liz Robertson. 📷 Tom Wargacki, London, 1983 "All I can say is that if I had no flair for marriage, I also had no flair for bachelorhood."
A spectacular shot by Gordon Parks from December 1956: Alan Jay Lerner & Frederik Loewe hard at work. My Fair Lady opened on Broadway on March 15, 1956, so they may have already started work on Gigi. That's Lerner's third wife (of eight!), actress Nancy Olson, behind him.
Remembering Alan Jay Lerner on his birthday 🎂 📷 Cecil Beaton, Vogue, 1984 He once said that writing lyrics "gives me an excitement, an exhilaration, exuberance that makes me feel as close to the joy of living as I'll probably ever know."
I expected this post. Orr was a wonderful hockey player, but I stand by Beliveau.
My favorite: One Live Badger
The Flint films were just so *Coburn* 👌
My favourite Roger Dean cover is for Gentle Giant's 1972 album Octopus This is such a great album, and again, the music matches the cover. The band's influences at the time were Rabelais, Camus & R. D. Laing. youtube.com/watch?v=ifRn...
Roger Dean's first cover for Yes was Fragile, in 1971. The idea of a planet breaking up fits in with his career-long environmental interest. This is one of my favourite albums, & the artwork is a perfect fit, even if it was produced before the recordings. youtube.com/watch?v=3hE7...
Happy birthday Roger Dean 🎂 📷 Michael Putland, 1972 "For more than six decades his designs have been part of the cultural terrain, a companion to record buyers through the covers of numerous bands, the most important of which – Yes – began with 1971’s Fragile." - Sid Smith
This one is my favourite: James Coburn by Jim Goldberg, August 2002
The photographs Jim Goldberg took of James Coburn a few months before the actor's death in 2002 are really extraordinary.
James Coburn with Tom Adams & Lawrence Montaigne in John Sturges's The Great Escape 📷 Léo L. Fuchs, 1963
"He looked like the child of the liaison between Lt. Pinkerton & Madame Butterfly." - Pauline Kael on James Coburn
Remembering James Coburn on his birthday 🎂 📷 Jim Goldberg, 2002 “Coburn is a modern rarity: an actor who projects lazy, humorous sexuality. He has made a variety of flawed, pleasurable films, the merits of which invariably depend on his laconic presence.” - David Thomson
Here's Yale Joel's 1952 photo of a Jean Beliveau billboard in Montreal. Note that Beliveau was famous enough that they don't even use his name in the ad, and this was before he was in the Big League. He wouldn't play for Les Canadiens until the 1953-54 season.
Jean Beliveau knocks a puck past goaltender Gump Worsley, in a Habs-Rangers game from the late 50s. Gump was later traded to Montreal*, where he won four Stanley Cups along with Le Gros Bill. A great shot by Robert Riger. * apparently for trying to start a players' union in NY
Jean Beliveau squares off with Ted Lindsay. 📷 Hy Peskin, Feb. 17, 1955 Two Titans
Jean Beliveau skates by Don Marshall of the New York Rangers in a games from a Habs-Rangers playoff game 📷 James Drake, April 11, 1967 Montreal won the game 3-2, & swept NY. They lost to the Leafs in the final. Toronto's last Stanley Cup, while the Habs went on to win 10 more!
Remembering Jean Beliveau on his birthday 🎂 "Richard was Ruth to Howe's Gehrig, and Beliveau was hockey's Joe DiMaggio." - Chris Goyens & Allan Turowetz, Lions in Winter 📷 Le gros Bill by Yale Joel for Life Magazine, 1952 The greatest #4 in hockey.
I know Joan Blondell best as one of the four sexy librarians in Walter Lang's Desk Set, 1957 The others are Dina Merrill, Sue Randall & Katherine Hepburn
Joan Blondell & Tallulah Bankhead in the stage production of James Leo Herlihy's Crazy October 📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1958 NYPL digital collection I can imagine that Joan & Tallulah each worked hard to keep the audience focussed on Joan or Tallulah.
Joan Blondell & James Cagney in Lloyd Bacon's Footlight Parade, 1933 The still photographer on the set was the great Scotty Welbourne.
Joan Blondell & Dick Powell by Elmer Fryer, c. 1935. The two were married from 1936 to 1944, & made ten (!) musicals together.
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