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
Francesc Català-Roca
Jean Cocteau looking at a sculpture by Pablo Gargallo, 1950s #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
Child in a pottery workshop #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
Library of Peralada Castle, c. 1950 #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
Night Session, 1950s
The posters are for A Place in the Sun, so this is probably 1951 #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
The Diagonal, Barcelona, c. 1950 #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
Marine near the Columbus monument, 1950 #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
Looking forward to the Christmas lottery, 1952 #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
Self-portrait in Güell Park, 1953 #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
Photographer in Cuchillero's Arch, 1953 #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
The elegant lady on Gran Via, 1953 #CatalaRoca100
Francesc Català-Roca
Portrait of poet Joan Eduardo Cirlot, 1954
Today we're celebrating the great photographer's Centennial 🎂💯 #CatalaRoca100 @damonayoung
Francesc Català-Roca
Movie theatre on Gran Via, 1958 #CatalaRoca100
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Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk 🎂
📷 Ara Güler
"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 🎂💯
📷 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. 🧵
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 🎂
📷 Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur — 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
📷 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 🎂💯
📷 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 🎂
📷 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
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
📷 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.