Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young by Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal, 1969, for their album Déja Vu @Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Wait, you count six? Ahmet Ertegun convinced CS&N to add Neil Young, & on Déja Vu they added session musicians Greg Reeves & Dallas Woodrow Taylor Jr.
There's a different Tom Gundelfinger photo on the cover of Déja Vu, which had a very expensive design concept by Gary Burden. There was even a 4x5 tripod-mounted wooden tintype camera at the session, but this was apparently taken with a 35mm camera.
Not sure whose dog that is.
Joni Mitchell by Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal, 1968
Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal
Neil Young in Peter Tork's pool, between rehearsals
Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal
Jimi Hendrix before burning his guitar onstage at Monterey International Pop Music Festival, 1967
"The stage was 7 feet high. I’m a little over 6 feet. It was awkward to shoot from below the stage because it was hard to see over it."
Jim Croce by Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal
"We were shooting on the streets of Venice, California, and this little dog came up to Jim and hung out with us."
Tom Gundelfinger O’Neal with a print of Joni Mitchell
He counts Richard Avedon, Edward Weston & Annie Leibovitz as influences.
A great Tom Gundelfinger O’Neal cover photo for B. B. King's 1972 album Guess Who
Tom Gundelfinger O’Neal's cover for John Phillips's 1970 solo album, with a couple of other shots from the photo session
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For Louis Armstrong's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
📷 Eddie Adams, Opening Night, Las Vegas, 1970
"If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz & always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original."
- Duke Ellington
For Louis Armstrong's birthday, my favourite portraits
📷 Art Kane, 1958
I love his Satchmo With Style album from that year. Wonderful Gordon Jenkins arrangements.
For Louis Armstrong's birthday, my favourite portraits
Satchmo & Duke Ellington by Herman Leonard
Paris, 1960
Remembering Hedda Sterne on her birthday 🎂
📷 Gjon Mili for Life Magazine, 1950
"Covering a canvas is a very complicated and deadly serious game. There are strict rules and one can't possibly cheat."
Saul Steinberg & Hedda Sterne by Arnold Newman, 1951
"We looked at everything, everything. Every Sunday when there was no traffic, we went motoring through New York."
Remembering Hedda Sterne on her birthday 🎂
Saul Steinberg drew a picture of her as a cat. @Smithsonian @ArchivesAmerArt
Happy 95th birthday to the great Tony Bennett 🎂
A great portrait by Herman Leonard, New York, 1950
"The thing about this guy is that he’s so positive — if I were as talented as him, I’d be positive, too."
- Alec Baldwin
From Tony Bennett's 1992 album Perfectly Frank, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. Tony sings the rarely heard verse!
With Ralph Sharon, piano, Paul Langosch, bass, & Joe LaBarbera, drums
The great portrait on the cover is by E. J. Camp
Listening to The Tony Bennett & Bill Evans Album, 1975
Remembering P. D. James on her birthday 🎂
🎨 Michael Taylor
oil on canvas, 1996 @NPGLondon
"I came to believe that it is perfectly possible to remain within the constraints & conventions of the genre & be a serious writer."
P. D. James by Dudley Reed
Kingsley Amis called her “Iris Murdoch with murder”.
P. D. James, Baroness James of Holland Park, by Nick Sinclair, 1992 @NPGLondon
"When you go to vote in the House of Lords there is a long corridor down which you walk & when I go down I often have people saying ‘shouldn’t you be off working on another novel?’."
"The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment, in the most beautiful manner."
- Max Beerbohm
Rossetti’s Courtship
A thread of caricatures
"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
- Joseph Conrad
Stendahl by Bod
Jean Cocteau's caricature of Igor Stravinsky conducting The Rite of Spring