Remembering George Steiner on his birthday 🎂
📷 Peter Marlow, 2005
"An intensity of outward attention — interest, curiosity, healthy obsession — was Steiner’s version of God’s grace."
- Lee Siegel
George Steiner's study by Peter Marlow, 2005
"Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely."
George Steiner was born on #ShakespearesBirthday, also #WorldBookDay
Peter Marlow's shot of walking sticks & umbrellas at the Cambridge home of George Steiner, 2005
Coffee with George Steiner & his wife Zara ☕️☕️
📷 Peter Marlow, Cambridge, 2005
"I don't know what music does to me. I know it does *everything* to me."
- George Steiner
📷 Antonio Olmos, 2015
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Happy birthday Jason Lee 🎂
📷 Ari Perilstein, 2015
I did not know that Lee, best known for his starring role in "My Name is Earl", is a very fine photographer.
"I started just roaming America and documenting its weirdness and its strange beauty."
Jason Lee
Arizona, 2019
Jason Lee by Raymond Molinar
Galveston, Texas, November 2020
Happy birthday Eugene Richards 🎂
📷 Jocelyn Bain Hogg
"Both he and his subjects were aware of the clichés of poverty journalism—the posed portraits of dignified despair. Richards was looking for something else."
- Max Campbell
Eugene Richards
Dustin Hill with his daughter
Mineral, Illinois, 2008
Happy birthday Al Pacino 🎂
📷 Irving Penn, 1995
“With rare, sweet stealth, he has insinuated himself as one of our great actors. He is so much more accessible and beguiling than De Niro or Hoffman.”
- David Thomson
James Caan, Marlon Brando, Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino & John Cazale on the set of The Godfather
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1972
John Cazale & Al Pacino in 2, 1974
Another great film set shot by Steve Schapiro
"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart."
Remembering Cy Twombly on his birthday 🎂
📷 François Halard, 1990s
"He is the Levi-Strauss of graffiti art, revealing profound and mysterious connections between the impulse to scrawl and the instinct to paint."
- Jonathan Jones
Cy Twombly in his Rome apartment with his wife Tatiana.
📷 Horst P. Horst for Vogue, 1966
In 1968 Vogue photographer Henry Clarke did a photo shoot in Cy Twombly's apartment.
Remembering Karel Appel on his birthday 🎂
📷 Tony Vaccaro, 1969
"I paint like a barbarian in this barbarous time."
Karel Appel paints
📷 Nico Coster, Paris (undated)
What a wonderful process shot!
Karel Appel by Nico Coster
Molesmes, France, 1960s
"If the stroke of the brush is so important, it is because it expresses precisely what is not there."
Remembering Ella Fitzgerald on her birthday 🎂
📷 Richard Avedon, NY, 1959
"Amongst all of us who sing, she was the best."
- Johnny Mathis
Ella Fitzgerald by Annie Leibovitz, Beverly Hills, 1988
"As the years went by, her singing became more seasoned & brilliantly skilled, passing beyond anything anyone else could do... The strange thing is that the voice itself remained eternally young."
- Gene Lees
Ella Fitzgerald by Yale Joel for Life, 1958
"I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them."
- Ira Gershwin