Happy birthday Neil Young π
π· Mark Seliger
"An artist like Neil always has the upper hand. Itβs the pop world that has to make adjustments."
- Bob Dylan
Neil Young in Peter Tork's pool, between rehearsals
π· Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal
Neil Young by Julie Gardner, 2014
"The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media
Neil Young by Danny Clinch, 2005
"We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future."
- Marshall McLuhan
Neil Young by Kevin Cummins, 1995
"He has no problem with failure as long as he is doing work he is happy with. Whether it ends up as a win or loss on a consumer level is not as much of an interest to him as one might think."
- Elliot Roberts
On Neil Young's birthday, I'm listening to his 1974 album On The Beach
The cover photo is by Bob Seidemann
Neil Young by Guido Harari
Milan, 1989
"Young has never been physically whole, but that brokenness has annealed rather than slowed him. He is anything but a frail man when he has a guitar in his hand."
- David Carr
Neil Young by Ronald van Caem, 1976
"He likes it when the zeitgeist howls back."
- Steve Erickson
Another shot of Neil Young by Ronald van Caem, 1970s
A musician's sunglasses are a photographer's best friend.
My favourite cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" is by @Neilyoung, from his 2014 album A Letter Home
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An intense moment from Neil Young is captured by Robert Altman (the photographer, not the director), during a concert with Crazy Horse on March 20, 1970
Julie Gardner
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Newcastle, June 10, 2013
"Zen yet a little obsessive, open yet a little unapproachable, lurching toward his ambitions yet held back by his wariness of having to explain himself."
- Steve Erickson
Neil Young by Jim Goldberg
Napa, 2019
'Are you who I think you are?' she asks.
'Who do you think I am?' he says.
'Are you Neil Young?'
'Yeah,' he finally answers. nytimes.com/2000/07/30/magβ¦
Neil Young by Joel Bernstein, from 1970. That's Graham Nash on the right
A crop of this shot became the cover of Neil Young's 1970 album After The Gold Rush. This was Joel Bernstein's very first album cover, in a long & distinguished career.
Coffee with Neil Young βοΈ
π· Henry Diltz, 1971
Coffee with Neil Young, in colour! βοΈπ¦
π· Henry Diltz, 1975
Cameron Crowe:
"The cover photo, taken at sunset on their last day in the islands, tells it all - a clear portrait of four tanned men, all living in completely separate worlds. The print is now tacked up on Neil Youngβs bedroom wall at his ranch."
The photo is by Graham Nash
Graham Nash took this shot of Neil Young driving to his ranch at Broken Arrow in 1988. Nash was in a limo with David Crosby & Steven Stills.
"I saw him driving along this lonely road & I thought, 'This is a perfect image of Neil Young.'"
Neil Young in his 1947 Buick Roadmaster, photographed by Joel Bernstein at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, Hollywood, September 1973
"At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media
Neil Young by Carlo Massarini
Milan, 1989
"As if you ever doubted it for a moment, he loves to go through the wall, beyond the end of notes."
- Steve Erickson
Neil Young by Danny Clinch, 2016
"Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media
Neil Young at the Broken Arrow Ranch, Half Moon Bay, California
π· Henry Diltz, 1971
Young's dog was named Harte.
"With the extension of his nervous system as a total information environment, man bridges art and nature."
- Marshall McLuhan
Neil Young by Aaron Rapoport
"I've always been better moving than I am standing still."
Another shot of Neil Young by Aaron Rapoport #Cadillac
Neil Young singing Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds", from the Heart of Gold concert film. The song was chosen in 2005 as Canada's greatest in CBC's 50 Tracks program. Heart of Gold was no. 3! π¨π¦ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Tracks
Neil Young with David Crosby & Graham Nash
π· Ed Perlstein, Santa Cruz, 1977
My #MtRushmore of Canadian songwriters
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Ian Tyson
Neil Young
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.