Happy birthday Jane Birkin 🎂
📷 Nathaniel Goldberg, 2020
"The only way, really, of getting over grief is to make it into something else. You’re lucky if you’re a writer or a director or if you’re an actress because you can make it into something else."
Jane Birkin with her brother, Andrew, a fine photographer, in 1964
Andrew Birkin's photo of his sister Jane & Serge Gainsbourg, Oxfordshire, 1969
Jane Birkin & Agnes Varda on the set of Varda's Kung Fu Master, 1988
📷 Étienne George
Jean Louis Trintignant with Jane Birkin on the set of Michel Deville's Le mouton enragé
📷 Jean Gaumy, 1973
"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
- Jane Birkin by Joseph McKeown, Paris, 1974
This time around, it's Graham Greene's Travels with my Aunt
*Every* singer wanted the late Jimmy Rowles as an accompanist. Beautiful piano playing by Rowles on Jane Birkin's version of These Foolish Things, & best of all, he sings too!
A powerful portrait by the late photographer Alice Springs aka June Newton #RIP
Dirk Bogarde & Jane Birkin on the set of Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgia. The film was released in the UK as These Foolish Things.
I love this portrait of the two of them by Piet Goethals @NPGLondon, 1990
Celebrating Jane Birkin's birthday today 🎂
With Serge Gainsbourg in a great shot by Georges Kelaïditès
Paris, 1969
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin by Terry O'Neill, 1969.
These two almost always deliver great photos, but O'Neill adds his own special sauce here.
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg with their daughter Charlotte
📷 Doreen Spooner, 1971
Coffee with Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin ☕️
📷 Ian Berry, London, 1970
Another superb photograph by Ian Berry of Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
London, 1970
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
A portion of their complicated relationship illustrated in two photos by Bert Stern for Vogue, 1970
Jane Birkin by her daughter Kate Berry, a talented fashion & portrait photographer.
"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" was first performed in 1940 in the London revue New Faces by Jane Birkin's mother, Judy Campbell.
📷 Picture Post, 1940
From a Vogue interview with Jane Birkin:
"Serge won my mother over because he reminded her of Eric Maschwitz, who wrote 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' especially for her." en.vogue.fr/vogue-hommes/c… …
Maschwitz wrote the lyrics (Manning Sherwood the music)
📷 Sasha, 1937
Three generations of talent:
Actress-singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, photographer Kate Barry (Jane Birkin's daughter with composer John Barry), Jane Birkin & her mother, actress-singer Judy Campbell, backstage at a memorial to Serge Gainsbourg
London, September 1994
Happy birthday Jane Birkin 🎂
Judy Campbell with her husband, Lt. Commander David Birkin, at the christening of their daughter Jane. Their son Andrew became a screenwriter & director. He was an Assistant Director on Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1965-7.
📷 George W. Hales
One more cup of coffee with Jane Birkin ☕️
📷 Jean-Pierre Muller
Paris, 1990
I could go on all morning, but I'd better end this birthday thread for Jane Birkin 🎂
A great shot of the actress on the Isle of Wight by Alex Majoli, 2010
Oops! Forgot this shot!
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin by Georges Kelaïditès, 1969
I wonder if any French couple was photographed more often.
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Frances McDormand, Wes Anderson, Timothée Chalamet & Lyna Khoudri on the set of The French Dispatch, 2021.
The still photographer on the set was Roger Do Minh #stillonset
I love this glimpse of the filming of Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch by the still photographer, Roger Do Minh.
Another Roger Do Minh shot from the set of The French Dispatch.
Remembering Lore Feininger on her birthday 🎂
📷 Werner Rohde, 1929 @MuseumModernArt
The daughter of photographer Lyonel Feininger & his first wife Clara Fürst, she had her own Berlin portrait photography studio in the 20s & 30s.
Lore Feininger's portrait of the German actress Ilse Stobrawa, c. 1929
Remembering Don Hewitt on his birthday 🎂
📷 Librado Romero, 1999
"As a director & producer, Hewitt helped shape the early broadcasts of pioneers like Edward R. Murrow, Douglas Edwards & Walter Cronkite & oversaw CBS’s coverage of watershed moments."
- Jacques Steinberg
"It was a confrontation & a joint news conference, but nobody ever debated."
- Don Hewitt on the Nixon-Kennedy debate
Standards were a bit higher then!
"Kennedy knew how important this television appearance would be. Nixon kissed it off as just another campaign appearance."
- Don Hewitt
Remembering Lee Remick on her birthday
📷 Allan Grant, 1962
"In the picture gallery of fine American actresses, she holds a special place. She was always, indubitably, Lee Remick; her beauty, both perky & patrician, & her obvious intelligence were hers alone."
- Charles Champlin
Lee Remick on her Ford Thunderbird
📷 Bob Henriques, 1959
Lee Remick on the set of Blake Edwards' The Days of Wine & Roses
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1961
Remembering Clark Terry on his birthday 🎂
📷 Roberto Polillo, 1970
"Terry stands as tall in the evolution of his horn as anyone who has emerged since 1940."
- Stanley Crouch
Clark Terry by Dennis Stock, 1958
One of Duke Ellington’s 4 star trumpeters, with Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker & Ray Nance
Clark Terry by Jack Vartoogian, from 1997
Straight, No Chaser, with Clark Terry on flugelhorn, with Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone: