Remembering Ernest Hemingway on his birthday 🎂
Talking with Ingrid Bergman about her role in For Whom The Bell Tolls, 1941. Life photographer Bob Landry seems to have caught them in a thoughtful pause.
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Tore Johnson, 1954
Hemingway seems to be having a tiff with one of his cats.
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Hans Malmberg
At Finca Vigía, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba. This is undated, but it looks like it's from the 1950s. Hemingway lived at Finca Vigía off & on from 1939 to 1960
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
He disliked this Lloyd Arnold shot from 1939. "I don't work like this", he said.
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Man Ray, 1928
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Earl Thiessen, 1952
Hemingway is on safari in East Africa. That's a Zenith Model H500 Transoceanic shortwave radio, I believe
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Oh, & a bottle of Heinz ketchup @HeinzTweets
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Noel Coward & Ernest Hemingway get into it at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana, April 1959. Noel was in town filming Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana.
📷 Peter Stackpole for Life magazine
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Robert Capa, 1937
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Earl Theisen
Hemingway sparring while on safari in Kenya, 1952
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Lloyd Arnold, Ketchum, Idaho, 1940
Hemingway arguing with Robert Capa about his photographs. He didn't like Capa always shooting him with a drink in his hand (see the Capa shot earlier in this thread).
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
George Karger
Hemingway admires his physique
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Robert Capa, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1940
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On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
David E. Scherman
Janet Flanner & Ernest Hemingway At Café Les Deux Magots, 1945
I think this is my favourite portrait of both "Genêt" & Papa.
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Leonard McCombe made the trip to Cuba in October 1958 to cover Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize win for Life. A beautiful portrait.
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