Remembering Grace Kelly on her birthday π
π· Philippe Halsman, 1955
"When you looked at her picture, you were not looking at her. You were looking at the illusion of her. The camera did more than love her. It was insane about her."
- Don Richardson
I love this Alan Grant shot of Grace Kelly & Audrey Hepburn, both presenters at the 28th Academy Awards, March 21, 1956
Each had won a Best Actress #Oscar: Kelly for The Country Girl in 1954 & Hepburn for Roman Holiday in 1953.
This is lovely: #AcademyAwards presenters Audrey Hepburn & Grace Kelly backstage at the RKO Pantages Theatre
π· Allan Grant for Life magazine, 1956
Walter Carone photographs Grace Kelly in her stateroom aboard the SS Constitution, sailing from New York to Monaco for her wedding, April 1956
Grace Kelly by Bud Fraker, March 1956
Fraker called her "the woman with a thousand faces - all of them pure." He was the set photographer on Dial M for Murder & To Catch a Thief. Fraker felt this shot, taken on the eve of her Hollywood exit to become a princess, was "too sexy".
Two more shots of Grace Kelly by Bud Fraker: publicity shots for Rear Window, 1954, & To Catch a Thief, 1955.
For Grace Kelly's birthday, Philippe Halsman's #jump! shot, 1959
Grace Kelly by Philippe Halsman, February 9, 1955
She wore this dress when she won her Oscar for The Country Girl
Here's that dress again: William Holden presents Grace Kelly with her Oscar for Best Actress, for The Country Girl. Holden had won the year before for Stalag 17.
π· Earl Leaf, Pantages Theater, March 30, 1955
The dress was green!
Grace Kelly with Edmund O'Brien. His #Oscar was for The Barefoot Contessa, 1955
Earlier that night:
Don Hartman, Zizi Jeanmaire, Grace Kelly & Edith Head on their way to the Oscars. Kelly & Head both won.
π· George Silk, 1955
Another superb portrait of Grace Kelly by Philippe Halsman, 1954
Grace Kelly & Frank Sinatra on the set of High Society.
π· Dennis Stock, 1956
An odd vibe on this set!
Grace Kelly & Frank Sinatra, High Society.
π· Dennis Stock, 1956
Grace Kelly looks fabulous in this scene from High Society. And, damn!, she holds her own singing with Bing! Her own voice.
Yar.
Grace Kelly in another green dress.
A St. Patrick Day's photo shoot with Gene Lester, 1954
Grace Kelly arrives in Los Angeles to star in High Society, 1956.
"She came in on the Super Chief".
π· Darlene Hammond
On the set of Rear Window: James Stewart, Grace Kelly & Alfred Hitchcock, 1954. My favourite Grace Kelly movie.
Two very fine still photographers were on set: Bud Fraker & Phil Stern. Either of them could have taken this awesome photograph.
Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby & William Holden in The Country Girl.
π· John Swope, 1954
Kelly beat out Dorothy Dandridge, Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn & Jane Wyman for her #Oscar. Holden & Bing both lost out to Marlon Brando. Edith Head did the costumes; she won that year for Sabrina.
Loomis Dean took 40 pictures of Grace Kelly for Life magazine. Alas, all undated in the Life archive. Here are two of my favourites.
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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.