Thread by @dean_frey

The 1968 American Davis Cup Team at the Berkeley Tennis Club, by Bob Peterson for Time magazine, July 12, 1968
Donald Dell, Dennis Ralston, Stan Smith, Arthur Ashe, Charlie Pasarell, Clark Graebner & Bob Lutz
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#InternationalCoolHallOfFame

In 1977 Arthur Ashe married the photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy. Here they are in Paris, to attend a photo show of hers.
📷 Benoit Gysembergh, 1979
Their daughter's name is Camera!

Jeanne Moutoussamy Ashe
The Wedding Dance, NYC, gelatin silver print
What an outstanding photograph!

Another great shot by Jeanne Moutoussamy Ashe
Miss Bertha, Silver gelatin print

Jeanne Moutoussamy Ashe in her studio
Photo: Susan Wood, 1977

Susan Wood's shot of the newly-married couple.
"When Ashe first saw her at a tennis tournament she was shooting for a New York television station, and he said, 'Photographers are sure getting cuter.' Gaaad, she thought. Four months later, on Feb. 20, 1977, they were married."

More photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. These are from the @MuseumModernArt collection
Airport, Guayaquil, Ecuador
1978

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Central Park Wedding, New York
2001

Black Man, White Woman, Johannesburg, South Africa
1977
@MuseumModernArt

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Soweto Yard, South Africa
1977
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Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Beverly Hodge
New Bedford NY, 1990
@MFAH
"I am inspired & driven by light. I don’t pick up my camera & say to myself that I should take that shot; I pick it up when I get a response."