#RIP Charlie Watts
My favourite portrait of the great drummer, by Deborah Feingold, 1992
A wonderful portrait of the Stones by Terry Disney, from January 17, 1964
Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts & Bill Wyman
So much style! #RIP Charlie Watts
Here is Charlie Watts in 1963, in a great photograph by Fiona Adams. Great gravitas - not a shot you'd expect from an early Stones concert. #RIP
#RIP Charlie Watts
📷 Peter Webb
resin print, May 1971 @NPGLondon
A splash of colour from Terry O'Neill in this 1963 shot of The Rolling Stones outside the Tin Pan Alley Club in London. The photos from this shoot helped Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones & Charlie Watts get their first recording contract from Decca.
Robert Altman
Mick Taylor and Charlie Watts during the recording of Let It Bleed. Taylor believed he was being called in to be a session musician at his first studio session with the Rolling Stones. He was a member of the group from 1969-74.
Elektra Studios, October 1969
#RIP Charlie Watts
Love this portrait of The Rolling Stones by Norman Parkinson, for Queen, April 1964 @NPGLondon
The Rolling Stones by @GeredMankowitz, 1965 @NPGLondon
Charlie Watts was the coolest of the Stones, but I love his smile here #RIP
Lean into it...
The Rolling Stones by Peter Webb, 1970s
Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor @NPGLondon
Charlie Watts was the coolest & the most graceful; completely centered & at his ease here. #RIP
Charlie Watts by Eamonn McCabe, 1992
"I’ve never fulfilled the stereotype of the rockstar. Back in the 70s, Bill Wyman and I decided to grow beards and the effort left us exhausted." #RIP
Charlie Watts by Stanley Bielecki, June 26, 1964
He hated playing at music festivals, because the quality of the music suffered outdoors. He took his music seriously, but not himself. #RIP
Charlie Watts by Michael Putland
New York, 1978
"He has always collected old things – vintage cars, jazz records, first editions of 20th century literature. In short, he’s always been an ‘eminence grise’ at heart – and that’s why we’ve always loved him."
- @AHHPrendergast
I love when Charlie Watts plays jazz, & I listen for the swing in his rock drumming. #RIP
"The challenge with rock and roll is the regularity of it. My thing is to make it a dance sound; it should swing and bounce."
This is truly fantastic:
The two-year-old Charlie Watts with his mother Lillian and father Charles in Piccadilly Circus in 1943
📷 Linda Roots
Even then he dressed so perfectly. #RIP
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Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk 🎂
📷 Ara Güler
"His books are multi-layered, allegorical, sometimes fanciful, Proustian in their attention to detail and Borgesian in their dazzling complexity."
- Sarah Lyall
Orhan Pamuk by Sophie Bassouls, 1990
"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."
It's so great that other photographers have continued Philippe Halsman's #jump! tradition. Here's Orhan Pamuk by Alex Majoli.
This was taken at Cannes in 2007, when Pamuk was a member of the Festival Jury.
Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial 🎂💯
📷 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. 🧵
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 🎂
📷 Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur — 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
📷 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 🎂💯
📷 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 🎂
📷 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
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
📷 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.