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Remembering Maria Austria on her birthday π
π· 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
Maria Austria's wonderful photograph of Bruno Walter conducting, from 1952
Walter conducts Mozart
James Baldwin by Maria Austria
Netherlands, 1965
Joods Historisch Museum @Europeanaeu
Maria Austria
Mother & child before βFamily Groupβ at an exhibition of Henry Moore, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1950
Josephine Baker by Maria Austria
Monte Carlo, 1970
Kinderen in de Jordaan
π· Maria Austria, 1953
What a marvellous photograph!
Today we're celebrating the great Dutch photographer's birthday.
Maria Austria by her husband (also a photographer), Henk Jonker, Amsterdam, 1961.
So many great photos by Austria & other Dutch photographers at the website of the Maria Austria Institute maibeeldbank.nl
Maria Austria
Leonard Bernstein with his brother Burton and sister Shirley, during a boat trip on the IJsselmeer, the Netherlands, 1950
Paul Huf put together this 1958 shot of top Dutch photographers, with the great Maria Austria on the left. Huf managed to scooch in beside her & still have this awesome result.
This 1966 shot by Maria Austria shows an advertising shot in Paul Huf's Amsterdam studio.
Maria Austria
Waiting for the ferry, Yugoslavia, 1961
Maria Austria
Milkman with cart, Willemsparksweg, Amsterdam, 1952
A spectacular photograph!
Maria Austria's great portrait of my favourite conductor, Otto Klemperer, 1954
A very stern gentleman, but there's so much joy in his recordings!
Mozart's Jupiter Symphony
Maria Austria
Attic in Anne Frank's Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam, 1954
Her photographs of the Secret Annex stand alone as works of art, but they also provide valuable documentation. Many of Austria's family members were murdered by the Nazis.
Man runs through rainstorm in Turin, Italy 1952
Another great photograph by Maria Austria
Henk Jonker
Maria Austria with camera, 1946
Austria & Jonker were married from 1950 until her death in 1975. Together they established a photojournalism agency, Particam Pictures, in Amsterdam.
Mstislav Rostropovich plays a Bach cello suite
Another superb portrait by Maria Austria, from 1964
The Prelude from the 5th Suite
Maria Austria's portraits are outstanding; this 1969 shot of Willem Sandberg especially. Sandberg was a graphic designer, and, like Austria herself, a member of the Dutch resistance during WWII.
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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.