Remembering Anita Ekberg on her birthday 🎂
📷 Phil Stern, 1955
One of my favourite Stern shots.
📷 Phil Stern, 1955
One of my favourite Stern shots.
Anita Ekberg by Yousuf Karsh
Two photos taken at her sitting on March 28, 1956
Two photos taken at her sitting on March 28, 1956
Tazio Secchiaroli the paparazzo:
One of his most famous series of photos begins with this 1958 shot of an apparently inebriated couple: Anita Ekberg and husband Anthony Steel
One of his most famous series of photos begins with this 1958 shot of an apparently inebriated couple: Anita Ekberg and husband Anthony Steel
... an enraged, but impaired, Steel goes after Secchiaroli & his colleagues...
... but the paparazzi escape.
Federico Fellini used this famous sequence in La Dolce Vita, filmed two years later.
"Secchiaroli and his companions, you might say, inadvertently storyboarded La Dolce Vita."
- Gaby Wood
"Secchiaroli and his companions, you might say, inadvertently storyboarded La Dolce Vita."
- Gaby Wood
The story comes full circle, of course, with Anita Ekberg's central role in La Dolce Vita.
When Allan Grant worked in colour, he usually got results! This shot of Anita Ekberg is from 1955, for Life magazine.
Today we're celebrating Ekberg's birthday 🎂
Today we're celebrating Ekberg's birthday 🎂
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