The great photographer Popsie Randolph was born on May 15, 1920, just over 101 years ago ππ
A marvellous portrait of Sid Caesar, from 1958
Popsie Randolph
Tony Randall & Alfred Hitchcock dining together in New York, November 19, 1962
C'mon, Hitch! Cast Tony in one of your movies!
DJ Alan Freed & Salvador Dali at the Paramount Theater, February 22, 1957
A great shot by PoPsie Randolph
An early photo of Tina Louise, well before her Gilligan's Island days.
π· PoPsie Randolph, July 1957
Gary Burton, Stan Getz, Gene Cherico & Joe Hunt at the Cafe Au Go Go, August 19, 1964
Photo: Popsie Randolph
A whole lotta jazz genius in one photograph:
Duke Ellington, George Shearing, Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine at Carnegie Hall, December 1, 1951
Photo: Popsie Randolph
The Lovin' Spoonful - John Sebastian, Steve Boone, Zal Yanovsky & Joe Butler - record Daydream, September 1965
Photo: Popsie Randolph
Kris Kristofferson at The Bitter End, New York
Photo: PoPsie Randolph, 1971
Stan Getz after a hard day of recording.
Photo: Popsie Randolph, August 1964
Zoot Sims said that Getz was "a whole bunch of interesting guys."
Coffee with Glenn & Helen Miller βοΈ
With their Boston Terrier 'Popps'
Photo: Popsie Randolph, NY, 1940
Here's the man himself: photographer Popsie Randolph, in New York, 1958
Little Eva by Popsie Randolph
New York, January 10, 1963
Popsie Randolph
The Jazz Messengers at Birdland, April 2, 1959
Bassist Jymie Merritt, trumpeter Lee Morgan, & Art Blakey on drums
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Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk π
π· Ara GΓΌler
"His books are multi-layered, allegorical, sometimes fanciful, Proustian in their attention to detail and Borgesian in their dazzling complexity."
- Sarah Lyall
Orhan Pamuk by Sophie Bassouls, 1990
"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."
It's so great that other photographers have continued Philippe Halsman's #jump! tradition. Here's Orhan Pamuk by Alex Majoli.
This was taken at Cannes in 2007, when Pamuk was a member of the Festival Jury.
Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial ππ―
π· Irving Penn, Vogue, August 23, 1993
"He was small, dark & electric with his own sort of vitality. Crackling. Sparks seem to fly out of him. He flashes his fingers like tiny rapid moths."
- Ginette Spanier
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Carson McCullers & Tennessee Williams, April 25, 1950 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Buster Keaton, 1952 #Avedon100
I'm listening to Concerto Italiano play Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, in their 2005 recording under Rinaldo Alessandrini.
I've always loved the cover photo; it's by Julia Fullerton-Batten. I'll start a thread of some of my favourites of her photos here. π§΅
Julia Fullerton-Batten
The Lady of Shalott, 2018
... which is, of course, a reinterpretation of John Waterhouse's 1888 painting of Lord Tennyson's poem.
Happy birthday Sofia Coppola π
π· Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur β a filmmaker with a distinct worldview and sensibility and a personal set of quasi-autobiographical interests."
- J. Hoberman
Sofia with her dad on the set of Godfather 2
π· Steve Schapiro, 1974
The Coppola family by Ted Streshinsky, 1974
Eleanor & Francis Ford Coppola with their kids Sofia, Roman & Gian-Carlo
Celebrate the Red Garland Centennial ππ―
π· Bill Spilka, c. 1957
"Garland's style was understated and harmonically sophisticated; he would delineate a melody, then shade it with distinctively voiced block chords and hints of counterpoint."
- Jon Pareles #RedGarland100
Esmond Edwards' great album cover for Red Garland's "Red in Bluesville", from 1959. Edwards took the photo, & designed the album as well.
Remembering Bea Arthur on her birthday π
π· Martin Mills, 1972
"Those of us working with her knew we were working with a golden comedic touch." - Norman Lear
Beatrice Arthur with Bill Callaway & Carl Ballantine in Bruce Jay Friedman & Richard Adler's musical A Mother's Kisses
π· Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
π· Friedman-Abeles, 1966
Arthur won the Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony for her performance. She was Beatrice on the stage & Bea on TV.