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
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 ‘Family Group’ at an exhibition of Henry Moore, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1950
Josephine Baker by Maria Austria
Monte Carlo, 1970
Kinderen in de Jordaan
📷 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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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
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
Remembering Lennie Tristano on his birthday 🎂
📷 William P. Gottlieb, 1947
"Tristano created improvised lines that were longer, more thematically coherent, & more organically related to the rest of the material than those created by most of his contemporaries."
- Robert Palmer
Lennie Tristano by Guy Le Querrec
Paris Jazz Festival, 1965
One of the greatest jazz photos:
Charlie Parker, Billy Bauer, Eddie Safrans & Lennie Tristano
📷 Herman Leonard, New York, 1949