Remembering Jean Seberg on her birthday π
A great portrait by Roger Corbeau, but undated (early 1970s, perhaps?) @MAPatrimoine
"Put her on any street this minute, and she would look contemporary."
- Jane Hess
Coffee with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg & Jean-Luc Godard βοΈ
Γ bout de souffle (Breathless), 1960
π· Raymond Cauchetier
From Studio Harcourt in Paris, this 1961 portrait of the pride of Marshalltown, Iowa, Jean Seberg. The young actress became a star in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, released the previous year.
Jean Seberg on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless
π· Alain Adler, 1960
"Sebergβs performance feels so genuine and nervous that it canβt help but begin the blurring of the divide between her screen image and her tragedy-strewn life."
- @AdamScovell
On the set of Γ bout de souffle - Breathless.
Jean-Luc Godard, cinematographer Raoul Cotard, Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo
π· Raymond Cauchetier, 1960
This is one of my favourite film-set photographs.
Bob Willoughby
Self-portrait with Jean Seberg during the filming of Saint Joan, 1957
Her first film. Seberg called her director, Otto Preminger, "the world's most charming dinner guest and the world's most sadistic film director."
A superb portrait of Jean Seberg by Bob Willoughby, 1956
Jean Seberg by Mario Dondero
"She flits between charismatic stability and wide-eyed chaos in ways that arenβt fully describable in words but are totally engrained there on the celluloid."
- @AdamScovell
Jean Seberg by David Hurn, 1963
"If the story of Jean Seberg is one of the more wretched footnotes in the chronicle of fame, thatβs all the more reason to treasure those occasions, onscreen, when she was not a victim - when she bore herself with mastery & grace."
- Anthony Lane
Jean Seberg by Philippe Halsman, 1959 #Jump!
Don't drop the cat! #Caturday
Jean Seberg in Paint Your Wagon,
π· Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"A million miles away behind the door":
Jean Seberg with her then husband, novelist Romain Gary
π· Raymond Depardon, 1968
Seberg said they were "a low-rent version of Marilyn Monroe & Arthur Miller".
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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.