Remembering Paul Strand on his birthday 🎂
In the garden of his house in Orgeval, France
📷 Martine Franck, 1972
Paul Strand
Schoolboy, Charente, France, 1951
@HFJMuseum
"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
Gina Lollobrigida by Raymond Voinquel, 1956
This was taken on the set of Carol Reed's Trapeze @MAPatrimoine
Raymond Voinquel also took a series of photos of Gina Lollobrigida on the set of Jean Delannoy's Notre Dame de Paris, also from 1956.
The goat is trying hard to upstage Gina Lollobrigida in this shot by Raymond Voinquel. She was playing Esmeralda in Jean Delannoy's Notre Dame de Paris, 1956.
Remembering Melina Mercouri on her birthday 🎂
📷 Slim Aarons, Athens, 1961
"To laugh for the camera is hard. Dassin taught me. To laugh in life? I would die without!"
Melina Mercouri with Romy Schneider & Jules Dassin on the set of 10:30 PM
Summer, 1966
What a wonderful photo; the still photographer on the set was Antonio Luengo.
This Roger Corbeau portrait of Melina Mercouri, taken on the set of Jules Dassin's Phaedra in 1961, is in the full-blown glamour style of 1930s Hollywood.
Today is the Centennial of photographer Jerry Cooke 🎂💯
Cooke shoots jockey Johnny Longden at Churchill Downs, Kentucky, 1961, in a photo by his SI colleague Neil Leifer
"Jerry was the closest thing to James Bond that the photography world has ever seen."
- Neil Leifer
For the Jerry Cooke Centennial, I'll be posting my favourite photos of his #JerryCooke100
Coffee with Ray Milland ☕️
This was taken on the set of The Lost Weekend, 1944. That *may* be Billy Wilder behind him.
Celebrate the Jerry Cooke Centennial!
Boris Pasternak, 1958 #JerryCooke100
Remembering Barney Kessel on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jon Sievert, 1974
There's a searching quality to Barney Kessel's guitar improvisations: modern, cool harmonies slide in next to perfectly shaped bebop phrases, tame compared to the wild effusions that come next.
- Peter Watrous
Listening to Barney Kessel's 1954 album Easy Like
That's a William Claxton photo on the LP cover
I wonder who else is listening to Barney Kessel's Easy Like LP?
Clint Eastwood! He knows his jazz. This photo is from 1959
Remembering Montgomery Clift on his birthday 🎂
📷Norman Parkinson for Vogue, 1952
"His sexually ambivalent, vulnerable characters were both revolutionary and ingenious; his influence invaluable to successive generations of actors."
- @christinalefou
Coffee with Montgomery Clift ☕️
A 1949 shot by Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine.
The feature had this classic title:
"Montgomery Clift - Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants"
Elliott Erwitt's wonderful shot of Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter & Montgomery Clift on the set of The Misfits, 1961
Remembering Childe Hassam on his birthday 🎂
📷 possibly by Caroline Reed Parson, 1913 @ArchivesAmerArt
"I know of no other painter with his power to make the world look convincingly joyous with its own joy, & this he seemed always able to do."
- Elisabeth Luther Cary
On Childe Hassam's birthday, download the free PDF version of H. Barbara Weinberg's 2004 book Childe Hassam: American Impressionist metmuseum.org/art/metpublica…
Childe Hassam
Coast Scene, Isles of Shoals, 1901
This was the first Hassam painting to be acquired by @metmuseum