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
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
He disliked this Lloyd Arnold shot from 1939. "I don't work like this", he said.
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Man Ray, 1928
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Earl Thiessen, 1952
Hemingway is on safari in East Africa. That's a Zenith Model H500 Transoceanic shortwave radio, I believe wd4eui.com/Zenith_H500_Trβ¦
Oh, & a bottle of Heinz ketchup @HeinzTweets
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Noel Coward & Ernest Hemingway get into it at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana, April 1959. Noel was in town filming Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana.
π· Peter Stackpole for Life magazine
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Robert Capa, 1937
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Earl Theisen
Hemingway sparring while on safari in Kenya, 1952
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Lloyd Arnold, Ketchum, Idaho, 1940
Hemingway arguing with Robert Capa about his photographs. He didn't like Capa always shooting him with a drink in his hand (see the Capa shot earlier in this thread).
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
George Karger
Hemingway admires his physique
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Robert Capa, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1940 @si_npg
On Ernest Hemingway's birthday, my favourite portraits π
Leonard McCombe made the trip to Cuba in October 1958 to cover Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize win for Life. A beautiful portrait.
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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