Remembering Paul Strand on his birthday π
In the garden of his house in Orgeval, France
π· Martine Franck, 1972
Paul Strand
Schoolboy, Charente, France, 1951
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"The great humanism that we find in Paul Strand's work is not just an intellectual concept, but something he has lived, struggled and suffered for all his life."
- Louis Stettner
Paul Strand was asked how he chose the things he photographed. "I don't," he replied. "They choose me. All my life, for example, I've been photographing windows & doors. Why? Because they fascinate me. Somehow they take on the character of human living."
Side Porch, Vermont, 1946
Paul Strand
Kitchen, Loch Eynort, South Uist, Hebrides, 1954
"He never has seen photography (no matter how great his respect for aesthetic craftsmanship) as separate from life and its social problems."
- Louis Stettner
Paul Strand
The White Fence, Port Kent, 1916
"The White Fence... a picture, I think, that has etched itself into the pictorial memory of every young photographer who ever saw it, except perhaps for the most insensitive."
- John Szarkowski
Paul Strand by Hermann Landshoff
New York, 1948 #Caturday
"As a young man working in the orbit of Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand defined modernist photography. Later on, it defined him."
- Karen Rosenberg
On Paul Strand's birthday, download the free PDF of Paul Strand Circa 1916, by Maria Morris Hambourg, 1988, from @metmuseum
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