Happy birthday Wes Anderson π
π· Andrew Eccles
"Wes Anderson has a very special kind of talent: He knows how to convey the simple joys & interactions between people so well & with such richness."
- Martin Scorsese
Like Schumann on Brahms: "Hats off, gentlemen - a genius!"
Maya Hawke & Rupert Friend on the set of Wes Anderson's upcoming film Asteroid City.
π· Roger Do Minh, 2022
Wes Anderson on the set of The Darjeeling Limited
π· James Hamilton, 2007
"With my style, I can take a subject that youβd think would be commercial and turn it into something that not a lot of people want to see."
I love this glimpse of the filming of Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch by the on set still photographer, Roger Do Minh.
Jared Gilman & Wes Anderson on the set of Moonrise Kingdom
π· Niko Tavernise, 2012 #stillonset
Niko Tavernise was the still photographer on the set of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, 2012. Lots to photograph on this set! #stillonset
Wes Anderson by Mattia Zoppellaro, 2014
Wes Anderson's parody/homage of Truffaut's Day for Night, in the form of an American Express commercial, 2004
Bill Murray on the set of Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
π· Brigitte Lacombe, 2003 #stillonset
I love this shot:
Bill Murray & Wes Anderson by Niko Tavernise, on the set of Moonrise Kingdom, 2012 #stillonset
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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.