Remembering Marshall McLuhan on his birthday π
π· Bernard Gottfryd, Toronto, 1965
"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."
Coffee with Marshall McLuhan βοΈ
Photo: Leonard McComb for Life Magazine, 1967
Today we're celebrating the great Edmontonian's birthday π
"Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment."
- Marshall McLuhan
π· Lee Friedlander, Philadelphia, 1961
"We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future."
- Marshall McLuhan
π· Neil Young by Danny Clinch, 2005
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
Marshall McLuhan was born on this day in 1911.
π· Yousuf Karsh, 1974
Marshall McLuhan by Manuel Bidermanas
"Far from regarding technological change as inevitable, I insist that if we understand its components we can turn it off any time we choose. Short of turning it off, there are lots of moderate controls conceivable."
"The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch."
- Marshall McLuhan
π· Glenn Gould by Alfred Eisenstaedt
"He came from a long line of bullshitters, par excellence."
- Philip Marchand on Marshall McLuhan, whose birthday is today π
π· Brian Griffin, 1979 @NPGLondon
"The future of the book is the blurb."
- Marshall McLuhan
Highly recommended: Philip Marchand's fine book Marshall McLuhan: The Medium & The Messenger amzn.to/3hWIX1b
More - much more - coffee with Marshall McLuhan βοΈβοΈβοΈ
π· Leonard McComb, 1967
"The 'message' of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs."
- Understanding Media
"When we put our central nervous system outside us we returned to the primal nomadic state."
- Marshall McLuhan
π· iPhone launch, Tony Avelar, 2007
"New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media."
- Marshall McLuhan
π· Wayne Miller, 1967
Remembering Marshall McLuhan on his birthday π
"We read the 21st-century media through his eyes."
- B. W. Powe
Caricature by David Levine
Wayne Miller @NewYorker, October 15, 1966
"In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point."
- Marshall McLuhan
Another portrait of Marshall McLuhan by Yousuf Karsh
"He said a lot of wild and silly things, and a quite high proportion of truly brilliant things."
- Mitchell Stephens
"Colour is not so much a visual as a tactile medium."
- Marshall McLuhan
π¨ Jack Bush, Light Grey, July 1968
"The most human thing about us is our technology."
- Marshall McLuhan
π· Lewis Hine self-portrait, New York, 1908
"The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media
π· Neil Young by Julie Gardner, 2014
"The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer."
- Marshall McLuhan
π· Reggie & Ronnie Kray by David Bailey
bromide print, April 1965 @NPGLondon
Marshall McLuhan by John Reeves, 1967
"Suppose he is what he sounds like, the most important thinker since Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein & Pavlov, studs of the intelligentsia game."
- Tom Wolfe, "The new life out there", New York Herald Tribune, 1965
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century."
- Marshall McLuhan
π· January Jones & Jon Hamm by Annie Leibovitz, 2009
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Remembering Sonny Clark on his birthday π
This Francis Wolff photo was taken during the rehearsal for Dexter Gordonβs Go! album, 1962
On Sonny Clark's birthday, read these remarkable dispatches from @SamStephenson12 in the @parisreview, beginning here: theparisreview.org/blog/2011/01/1β¦
He managed to turn up Sonny's 1st grade photo from Washington School, Herminie no. 2, Pennsylvania, 1937-38. Sonny is front & centre.
"In the last eighteen months of Clarkβs life, he would climb to daylight for brief periods, breath clean air, play some beautiful music, & then sink to lower and lower depths."
- @SamStephenson12
Leapin' & Lopin', Sonny's last album as leader, 1962
Remembering Ernest Hemingway on his birthday π
Talking with Ingrid Bergman about her role in For Whom The Bell Tolls, 1941. Life photographer Bob Landry seems to have caught them in a thoughtful pause.
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Tore Johnson, 1954
Hemingway seems to be having a tiff with one of his cats.
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Hans Malmberg
At Finca VigΓa, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba. This is undated, but it looks like it's from the 1950s. Hemingway lived at Finca VigΓa off & on from 1939 to 1960
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
- Happy birthday Cormac McCarthy π
Photo: Gilles Peress, 1992
"A few years ago The El Paso Herald-Post held a dinner in his honor. He politely warned them that he wouldn't attend, and didn't. The plaque now hangs in the office of his lawyer."
A rare Cormac McCarthy interview, 1998 @NYTimes Magazine: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.coβ¦
π· Kurt Markus
"Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world."
- Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Little Horses
π· Gilles Peress, 1992
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
Remembering Max Liebermann on his birthday π
π· Yva (Else Simon), from her series "Celebrities from behind", before 1930
Liebermann was featured, along with Nolde, Chagall, Klee, Kandinsky, Kokoschka, & others, in the Nazi's "Degenerate Art" exhibition in Munich in July 1937
Max Liebermann, Self-portrait, 1913
"Six years Vincent Van Gogh's senior, he led the way to the Dutchman's radical topics, & to those of Berlin's great KΓ€the Kollwitz."
- Colin Eisler
Max Liebermann
On the Alster in Hamburg, 1910
Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden