Peter Marlow #Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square, 1993
🧵 A thread of...
Pigeons!
Ferdinando Scianna
Old woman with pigeons
Istanbul, 1996
A. Abbas
Snow over the Oyashimo Shinto shrine, devoted to the deity of family and love. This shrine caters to many pigeons who symbolize roaming spirits.
Izumo, 2000
Celebrate the Clark Terry Centennial!
Photo: Dennis Stock, 1958
One of Duke Ellington’s 4 star trumpeters, with Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker & Ray Nance
Celebrate the Clark Terry Centennial!
Photo: Roberto Polillo, 1970
"Your sound is you & what you really feel inside."
Stardust, London, 1967, with Teddy Wilson, Louise Bellson & Bob Cranshaw:
Celebrate the Clark Terry Centennial!
A great photo by Jack Vartoogian, from 1997
Here playing the flugelhorn, with Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone:
"The moment I had Smiley as a figure, with that past, that memory, that uncomfortable private life & that excellence in his profession, I knew I had something I could live with & work with." #RIP John le Carré
Photo: Erich Hartmann, 1965
"One of the fascinations of the intelligence world is that it’s such a reflection of the society it serves. If you really want to examine the national psychology, it’s locked in the secret world." #RIP John Le Carré
Photo: Dudley Reed
John Le Carré by Lord Snowdon
vintage bromide print, 1 March 1989 @NPGLondon
"The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building - it’s just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on."
#RIP Olivia de Havilland
I'll post my favourite portraits, beginning with this marvellous one by Bob Landry, from 1942
Olivia de Havilland by Nina Leen for Life, 1945
Lovely!
Olivia De Havilland by Raymond Voinquel, Paris, 1950s
"When I wonder if you know that I live in France, I’m sure you don’t, because I am certain that you think me peacefully interred, & in good old native American soil." #RIP
"I was thirteen & ready for love. When the venal waif Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) got out of that cab on Fifth Avenue in a black dress & pearls in the early morning, I wanted to sip her through a straw."
- Donald Fagen, Eminent Hipsters
"Whenever I mention this picture to someone around my age, a strange, tragic smile flits across his or her face as if in remembrance of an old lover."
- Donald Fagen on Breakfast at Tiffany's
📷 Bud Fraker's iconic shot
"Even those who dismiss the film as a piece of typical Hollywood fluff that took the sting out of Capote's original story, blah, blah, are betrayed by a wetness in the eyes, a heaving chest & an occasional shudder of bliss/pain."
Audrey with Orangey Cat, who won a Patsy Award