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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A thread of photos by Ralph Morse, another great Life magazine photographer. π§΅
Stickball in Spanish Harlem, 1947
Ralph Morse
Audrey Hepburn with her Best Actress #Oscar, for Roman Holiday, March 1955
A French resistance fighter takes aim at a German sniper attacking a crowd during a tour by Charles De Gaulle, following the liberation of Paris.
A spectacular photo by Ralph Morse for Life magazine, August 1944
Remembering William Steig on his birthday π
π· Jill Krementz, 1973
"The Erotic has always been implicit in Steig's work. Like Picasso, Steig celebrates the body both in ripeness and decay."
- Brendan Gill, Here at the New Yorker
William Steig
September 23, 1985
A great @NewYorker cover on William Steig's birthday. Well-timed, as I'm keeping an eye on a bunch of NFL games this afternoon. Go @Lions!
William Steig
December 31, 1955
One of my favourites: a Top 10 @NewYorker cartoon
Remembering Veronica Lake on her birthday π
She was so good in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, 1941.
I was absurdly pleased to find out this outfit was designed by Edith Head, who did the costumes for the film. Great shot by Talmadge Morrison, the on set still photographer
A lovely shot by Talmadge Morrison of Joel McCrea & Veronica Lake, in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels, 1941
It must have been a relief for Edith Head to move on to this scene.
Veronica Lake by George Hurrell, 1941
Glamour is one thing, but look at Lake's eyes in this shot. Hurrell is searching for character here, & finding it.
Remembering Louise Brooks on her birthday π
π· Eugene Robert Richee, 1923
"Brooks is a flame fluttering in the wind of her own breath."
- David Thomson
Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee, 1928
"The only star actress I can imagine either being enslaved by or wanting to enslave; and a dark lady worthy of any poet's devotion."
- Kenneth Tynan
A spectacular portrait of Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee, 1928
Herbert Mitgang notes in his 1985 @nytimes obituary:
"She told Mr. Tynan that she had never been in love, was supported at various times by several millionaires, but declined to marry them."
Remembering Aaron Copland on his birthday π
π· Irving Penn, 1979
"He has never turned out bad work, nor worked without an inspiration. His stance is that not only of a professional but also of an artist - responsible, prepared, giving of his best."
- Virgil Thomson
An undated portrait of Aaron Copland by the composer David Diamond, who was a fine photographer.
"By having sold out to the mongrel commercialists half-way already, the danger is going to be wider for you, and I beg you dear Aaron, don't sell out entirely yet."
Aaron Copland by George Platt Lynes (undated) @BeineckeLibrary
"The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art."