Remembering Nam June Paik on his birthday π
A portrait by his Fluxus colleague George Maciunas, at the Exposition of Music β Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1963 @MuseumModernArt
Nam June Paik coined the phrase "Electronic Super Highway," predicting in a 1974 report that it "will become our springboard for new and surprising human endeavors."
π· Elliott Erwitt, 1982
Nam June Paik
Internet Dream, 1994 @Tate
"He really led the development of a new art form, bringing the moving image into the modern art world."
- John Hanhardt
George Maciunas
Nam June Paik's prepared toy piano at his Exposition of Music β Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, March 11-20, 1963 @MuseumModernArt
Nam June Paik by Eric Kroll, 1979 @americanart
"Decades before Snapchat and Instagram, Paik became the first major artist to foresee how mass media would give way to multidirectional communication."
- @jsf
Nam June Paik
βTV Gardenβ (1974-77)
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
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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.
John Lennon & George Martin listen to playback, in a photo by Frank Hermann from 1967.
Here's a #playback thread π§΅
I love the staring-into-space looks of the musicians, producers & engineers.
Gregor Piatigorsky listening to #playback of his Brahms sonatas
π· W. Eugene Smith, 1947
Bruno Walter listening to playback at Columbia Studios
π· Dennis Stock, 1959