Remembering Howard Hawks on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ernst Haas, 1955
“In a very important way, this seeming American may have been against the grain of his time and place. That may help explain why the films grow in wonder.”
- David Thomson
Howard Hawks directs Joan Crawford & Gary Cooper on the set of Today We Live, 1933. The still photographer on this production was Frank Tanner. #stillonset
John Barrymore with Carole Lombard & director Howard Hawks on the set of Twentieth Century, 1934. The uncredited still photographer on the set was the great Bud Fraker. #stillonset
Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall in Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not, 1944
Hoagy sings "Am I Blue", & Slim* chimes in
* the story that Andy Williams' voice was dubbed in is an urban legend; Bacall did her own singing
The still photographer on the set was Max Julian #stillonset
Howard Hawks & his wife Dee by the pool in Monaco, with producer Charles K Feldman & his 'protegée' Capucine
📷 Slim Aarons, 1957
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Remembering Leonard McCombe on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jun Miki, 1955
"'What's going on?' you ask yourself. 'Where's my story?' It's like being on the outside of a shop window looking in. Somehow, you have to break through the glass."
Happy birthday Miguel Calderón 🎂
📷 Matthew Takata, 2013
"Whether because of luck, or serendipity, or connection, or empathy, Calderón unlocks and discovers hidden worlds, strange beings, and unusual situations throughout the city."
- María Virginia Jaua
Remembering Clementina Hawarden on her birthday 🎂
📷 A possible self-portrait, c. 1861-62
"Doubly interiorized within the confined space of the first-floor studio and the pages of the family albums, Hawarden’s photographs represent seclusion, even exclusion."
- Carol Mavor
Clementina Hawarden
Photographic Study, early 1860s @metmuseum
Hawarden called her photographs "photographic studies"; this is a portrait of her daughter Clementina Maude.
Clementina Hawarden
Another photograph of Clementina Maude, from c. 1863/4.
Note the placement of the hat in the pool of light at the subject's feet. This is a surprisingly modern-looking photo from this period.
Remembering George Hurrell on his birthday 🎂
📷 Self-portrait, 1947
"The most essential thing about my style was working with shadows to design the face instead of flooding it with light."
Remembering Marilyn Monroe on her birthday 🎂
📷 Ed Feingersh, 1955
“Her fame increases, & as it does so we see how far she depended on, and excelled in, photographs - not movies. She is funnier in stills, sexier, more mysterious & protected against being. ”
- David Thomson
On Marilyn Monroe's birthday, my favourite photos.
Marilyn with George Cukor on the set of her last film, Something's Got to Give
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1962
Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Marilyn Monroe & Arthur Miller by Bruce Davidson, 1960
Richard Nickel on his birthday 🎂
📷 Self-portrait
"I charge the cultural elite of Chicago with the doom of the Chicago School buildings. They rape the city for their private fortunes in order to enjoy private art in the suburbs."
Richard Nickel
First Regiment Armory, Chicago, built in the late 1880s
Richard Nickel's wonderful photograph of Adler & Sullivan's 1894 Chicago Stock Exchange