Remembering Montgomery Clift on his birthday π
π·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 βοΈ
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
Montgomery Clift & Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Raintree County
π· Bob Willoughby, 1956
J.R. Eyerman
Montgomery Clift in Red River, 1948
Hedda Hopper, interviewing Clift at the Brown Derby, asked: βIn one sentence, what is the story of your life?β He replied: βI've been knifed.β
A good set photographer finds situations for interesting shots away from movie cameras. Burt Glinn's great photo of Liz Taylor & Montgomery Clift, whose Suddenly Last Summer dressing rooms adjoined. June 1959
Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Clift take a break from filming A Place In The Sun
π· Peter Stackpole, February 1950
One of my favourite shots from Magnum's photographer saturation on the set of The Misfits, 1960: Montgomery Clift by Ernst Haas.
Montgomery Clift was a very good photographer: I love this shot of Katharine Hepburn, his co-star on Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959.
A photo of Myrna Loy taken by Montgomery Clift during the filming of Lonelyhearts, 1958-59 @nypl digital collection
A lovely photo of Elizabeth Taylor by her close friend Montgomery Clift
An undated picture with one of her sons, who were born in 1953 & 1955.
Two early photographs by Montgomery Clift
Untitled, 1936
"Cheval et Marnie", from his series "My Trip West", 1936
Another cup of coffee with Montgomery Clift βοΈβοΈ
Stanley Kubrick took more than 100 shots of the photogenic actor at his apartment for Look magazine, 1949
Monty brushes his teeth
π· Stanley Kubrick for Look, 1949
A great shot of Montgomery Clift with a young friend
π· Stanley Kubrick, 1949 @MuseumofCityNY
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Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk π
π· Ara GΓΌler
"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 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.