Remembering George Harrison on his birthday π
π· Curt Gunther, 1964
"He may not have written the songs for which they will be remembered, but without his gift for discovery the group might have taken a much less interesting & productive course."
- Richard Williams
George Harrison's Leap of Faith into the arms of director Richard Lester
A Hard Day's Night, 1964
The still photographer on the set was Bert Cann #stillonset
Backstage during the Roy Orbison/Gerry & The Pacemakers UK tour. Oh, & The Beatles...
Paul McCartney, Freddie Marsden, George Harrison, Gerry Marsden, Ringo Starr, Les Maguire, John Lennon, John 'Les' Chadwick, Roy Orbison
π· Harry Hammond, May 1, 1963
Barry Feinstein
George Harrison & Phil Spector
Mixing session for the Concert for Bangladesh album
New York City, 1971
Norman Parkinson's great shot of George Harrison, recording With The Beatles in Studio 2, Abbey Road Studios
September 12, 1963
Ravi Shankar & George Harrison by Clive Arrowsmith
digital chromogenic print, 1974 @NPGLondon
George Harrison & Ravi Shankar by Ed Caraeff
Los Angeles, August 3, 1967
George called the great sitar master "the first person who ever impressed me in my life."
A lovely portrait of George Harrison by @GeredMankowitz
"Once you get rich and famous, you think, 'this wasn't it.' And that made me go on to find out what it is."
George Harrison & Pattie Boyd by Brian Duffy, 1966
They're in Monaco watching the filming of John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix.
Baron Wolman's shot of George Harrison at Apple Corps headquarters, London, September 1968
I'd love to know what book he's reading.
George Harrison by Pattie Boyd ποΈ
George Harrison by Arnold Newman
colour dye transfer print, 1978 @NPGLondon
George Harrison by Robert Whitaker
bromide print, 1966 @NPGLondon
My favourite portrait of George, I think
George Harrison by Terry O'Neill, 1990
"I don't want to be in the business full-time, because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't want to go out to clubs and partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow."
Barry Feinstein's famous cover shot for George Harrison's 1970 album All Things Must Pass.
Here's another shot of George Harrison by Barry Feinstein. I've seen two dates for this: 1970 (during the All Things Must Pass shoot at Friar Park), and 1975 in Los Angeles. Either way, Feinstein captures something very personal about Harrison in spite of the formal pose.
George Harrison by Mark Seliger, 1992
"We were four relatively sane people in the middle of the madness."
George Harrison on the set of A Hard Dayβs Night
π· David Hurn, 1964
George Harrison & John Lennon by Astrid Kirchherr
gelatin silver print, 1962 @NPGLondon
A set #list taped to the top of George Harrison's guitar, before a concert in Hamburg, 26th June 1966
π· Robert Whitaker
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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.