Happy birthday William Gibson @GreatDismal 🎂
📷 Christopher Morris, Kitsilano Beach
"Gibson’s writing enters the bloodstream like a drug, producing a mild hallucinogenic effect that lasts for hours."
- Pagan Kennedy
William Gibson @GreatDismal on the set of Robert Longo's Johnny Mnemonic
📷 Takashi Seida, 1995
My favourite portrait of @GreatDismal, by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward @alexwh
"In March 1988 I photographed William Gibson in his home. Having just read his novel Count Zero I attempted to make Gibson look a cyberspace count, a Dracula with a remote."
Remembering Barbara Crane on her birthday 🎂
📷 Philippe de Jonckheere, 1994
"A master of illusion, Crane transformed the quotidian into the quirky by distorting images through a variety of formats."
- Sam Roberts
Barbara Crane
From her Multiple Human Forms series, 1960s
Barbara Crane
From her series People of the North Portal, 1970-71
Remembering Maria Austria on her birthday 🎂
📷 Paul Huf, 1948
"Not only was she a witness to and victim of war and fascism, she also captured the social contradictions after World War II with a critical and at the same time profoundly humane outlook."
- Verena Nees
Arthur Rubinstein by Maria Austria, 1952
Joods Historisch Museum @Europeanaeu
Maria Austria
Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten, 1948 @mai_austria
Celebrate the Centennial of photographer Francesc Català-Roca 🎂💯
📷 Self-portrait, 1953
Català-Roca's version of Henri Cartier-Bresson's famous "decisive moment" was what he called the "eloquent moment". The difference is apparent when looking at the works of the two masters.
Francesc Català-Roca, Gran Vía Under Snow, 1953 #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
Salvador Dalí in the Park Güell, 1950s #CatalaRoca100
Remembering George Rodger on his birthday 🎂
📷 Self-portrait
"In spite of his impassive bearing, his emotions have become inscribed on film."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
George Rodger
A child about to be evacuated from London during the Blitz
Paddington Station, 1940
George Rodger
Postmen on their rounds during the bombardment of Coventry, 1940
Remembering Philip Roth on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Peterson, Newark, 1968
"Updike and Bellow hold their flashlights out into the world, reveal the world as it is now. I dig a hole and shine my flashlight into the hole."
Philip Roth by Julian Hibbard, 2011
"How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard."
Philip Roth by Elliott Erwitt, 1990
Martin Krasnik: What will the women do at your funeral?
Philip Roth: If they even show up ... they will probably be screaming at the casket. theguardian.com/books/2005/dec…
Remembering Patrick McGoohan on his birthday 🎂
📷 Albert McCabe, 1965
"Without the Prisoner, we'd never have had cryptic, mind bending TV series like Twin Peaks or Lost. It's the Citizen Kane of British TV – a programme that changed the landscape."
- Steve Rose
Patrick McGoohan with Hank Brandt in Don Siegel's Escape from Alcatraz
📷 Ron Grover, 1979
Patrick McGoohan with Lawrence Dane in David Cronenberg's Scanners
📷 Denis Fugere, 1981