Remembering Gwen Verdon on her birthday ๐
๐ท Tony Vaccaro, New York, 1953
"Widely regarded as the best dancer ever to brighten the Broadway stage, Ms. Verdon was also a performer who brought more than physical excitement to her roles."
- Robert Berkvist
Gwen Verdon by Ormond Gigli, 1953
A truly remarkable portrait
Gwen Verdon & Ben Stevenson by Jack Mitchell, 1978
Gwen Verdon with Shirley MacLaine & Bob Fosse during the filming of Sweet Charity
๐ท Lawrence Schiller, 1969
MacLaine played Charity in Fosse's film, a part that Verdon had created on Broadway under Fosse's direction.
Gwen Verdon & Bob Fosse on the set of Sweet Charity.
Verdon contributed to the film, without credit, as the assistant choreographer.
๐ท Lawrence Schiller, 1969
Gwen Verdon by Tony Vaccaro, New York, 1953
Gwen Verdon by George Karger, 1955
"You just put on the music, and I start to dance. My body remembers even if my brain doesn't."
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Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial ๐๐ฏ
๐ท 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. ๐งต
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 ๐
๐ท Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur โ 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
๐ท 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 ๐๐ฏ
๐ท 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 ๐
๐ท 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
๐ท Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
๐ท 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.
John Lennon & George Martin listen to playback, in a photo by Frank Hermann from 1967.
Here's a #playback thread ๐งต
I love the staring-into-space looks of the musicians, producers & engineers.
Gregor Piatigorsky listening to #playback of his Brahms sonatas
๐ท W. Eugene Smith, 1947
Bruno Walter listening to playback at Columbia Studios
๐ท Dennis Stock, 1959