Remembering Russell Lee on his birthday π
Boys on Easter morning, Southside Chicago, 1941
My favourite Lee photo
Photographer Russell Lee was born on this day in 1903.
Migrant farmers in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940
Russell Lee
Two pictures of young Japanese-Americans being forcibly relocated to Owens Valley, April 1942
Russell Lee
Children in an automobile waiting for their father to come out of the general store, Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938
Russell Lee, self-portrait, 1942 @LibraryCongress
"While he made no images comparable in fame to those of Lange or Evans, his work has been increasingly recognized for his penetrating eye for detail & a somewhat quieter & subtler portrayal of human experience."
- Douglas C McGill
Russell Lee
A man on the porch of a general store near Jeanerette, Louisiana, photographed in 1938 @librarycongress
"There seem to be no cameras between us & the people he photographs. His subjects are at ease & we are at ease with them."
- David L. Shirey
Russell Lee
Pinal County, Arizona, 1942
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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
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
"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