Remembering László Moholy-Nagy on his birthday 🎂
A fun portrait by his first wife, Lucia Moholy, 1925–26 @metmuseum
"To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century."
"Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Thinking in relationships."
Happy birthday László Moholy-Nagy 🎂
The Law of Series
1925 @MuseumModernArt
László Moholy-Nagy
Dusk at the playing fields of Eton, c. 1920-39
@HFJMuseum
László Moholy-Nagy
Katze, c. 1920-39
@HFJMuseum
László Moholy-Nagy
Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
late 1930s
László Moholy-Nagy's portrait of Hilla Rebay, artist & co-founder of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum @Guggenheim
Museum Archives, 1928-30
Coffee with László Moholy-Nagy ☕️
At Coffee
bei mokka
1923-28 @MFAH
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Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial 🎂💯
📷 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. 🧵
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 🎂
📷 Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur — 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
📷 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 🎂💯
📷 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 🎂
📷 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
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
📷 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.
John Lennon & George Martin listen to playback, in a photo by Frank Hermann from 1967.
Here's a #playback thread 🧵
I love the staring-into-space looks of the musicians, producers & engineers.
Gregor Piatigorsky listening to #playback of his Brahms sonatas
📷 W. Eugene Smith, 1947
Bruno Walter listening to playback at Columbia Studios
📷 Dennis Stock, 1959