Happy birthday Shirley MacLaine 🎂
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"I was in the chorus a long time, & in the chorus you don’t do things to stand out, you do things to keep your job. That’s the way I think, & that’s why I’m still working."
Shirley MacLaine gets dressed in a bat costume on the set of Artists & Models, directed by Frank Tashlin. A great shot by Loomis Dean for Life magazine, 1955
Shirley Maclaine & Jack Lemmon in The Apartment, 1960. One of my favourite Billy Wilder films. Heck, it's one of my favourite films!
The still photographer on the set was Jack Harris. #stillonset
Billy Wilder & Shirley MacLaine on the set of The Apartment
📷 Richard C. Miller, 1960
Jeanloup Sieff
Shirley MacLaine, Ina Balke & Jack Lemmon take a break, on the set of Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce, 1962. Sieff was on assignment for Harper’s Bazaar
Shirley MacLaine on the set of Irma La Douce
📷 Gjon Mili, 1963
Gwen Verdon with Shirley MacLaine & Bob Fosse during the filming of Sweet Charity
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
MacLaine played Charity in Fosse's film, a part that Verdon had created on Broadway under Fosse's direction.
Bob Fosse & Shirley MacLaine on the set of Sweet Charity
📷 Lawrence Schiller for Life magazine, 1968
For Shirley MacLaine's birthday, a pensive pose for Reg Burkett, September 1967
A great shot of Shirley MacLaine by Patrice Habans in Trafalgar Square
Shirley Maclaine on the set of Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce, 1962.
A fabulous shot by the still photographer on the set, Leo L. Fuchs #stillonset
Shirley MacLaine, Robert Mitchum & director Robert Wise in Two For The Seesaw, 1962
Jack Harris was the uncredited still photographer on the set. #stillonset
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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.