Another thread of a favourite photographer: Life magazine's Carl Mydans π§΅
Here with his Contax camera in a great shot by his colleague Andreas Feininger, 1942
Vladimir Nabokov by Carl Mydans
Ithaca, New York, September 1958
Herman Wouk by Carl Mydans
Times Square, 1962
Joe DiMaggio by Carl Mydans, 1939
Joltin' Joe hit .381 that year; his on-base percentage was .448
Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas with their poodle Basket
π· Carl Mydans, 1944
S. J. Perelman by Carl Mydans, 1961
"Before they made Perelman, they broke the mold."
I went looking for the source of this quote, & of course he said it about himself.
Carl Mydans
A migrant worker & his two children, Raymondville, Texas, 1937
Bobby Fischer by Carl Mydans, 1962
General MacArthur coming ashore at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines, 1945
Probably the most famous of all the pictures taken by Life's Carl Mydans.
Carl Mydans' portrait of Alfred Eisenstaedt with his Rolleiflex, from 1944
... and Alfred returned the favour: Carl Mydans with his Contax, by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1944
William Faulkner by Carl Mydans, 1962
Indira Gandhi by Carl Mydans
New York, 1956
Another superb portrait of Bobby Fischer by Carl Mydans, 1962
Carl Mydans
JFK & Caroline go for a walk in Georgetown, 1960
Another famous photograph by Carl Mydans, following JFK's assassination, November 1963
Muriel Spark by Carl Mydans, 1965
Philip Roth with his first wife Maggie Martinson
π· Carl Mydans, 1962
A great shot of London in the fog by Carl Mydans, 1952
Ezra Pound by Carl Mydans, 1940
According to the Life caption, he's "composing profacist commentaries on stationary emblazoned with Mussolini's motto 'Liberty is a Duty, Not a Right'."
Carl & Shelley Mydans by Nina Leen
Photographer Carl & journalist Shelley were the first husband & wife team to work for Life magazine. They were were interned by the Japanese for a year in Manila, then for another year in Shanghai, before a prison-of-war exchange in 1943.
John O'Hara by Carl Mydans
The Nabokovs at work: Vladimir dictates & Vera types
π· Carl Mydans, 1958
James Baldwin by Carl Mydans, 1962
Grace Kelly on the set of High Noon
π· Carl Mydans, 1951
I missed this portrait when I did Grace Kelly's birthday thread yesterday.
Leonard Bernstein by Carl Mydans, 1959
This was taken during a New York Philharmonic concert in Moscow
Carl Mydans
Tsingtao, 1948
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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.