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Remembering Sid Avery on his birthday πŸŽ‚
"Sid shot almost every cinema giant of the mid-20th century & pulled off a feat surpassing even that: he captured them unguarded, stripping away the studio & PR artifice to find the people hiding underneath."
- Michael Callahan
Kim Novak by Sid Avery, 1956
Nelson Riddle with his long-time, blue-eyed, collaborator.
πŸ“· Sid Avery, 1954
Buster Keaton by Sid Avery, 1964
An outtake from Sid Avery's photoshoot for Frank Sinatra's "No One Cares" album cover, 1959. The man over Frank's right shoulder is Ed Thrasher, who would become art director for Sinatra's Reprise label in 1984.
Two Sid Avery shots of Frank Sinatra in the new Capitol Studios on Vine Street in Hollywood, 1957
Kim Novak by Sid Avery, 1956
#PhoneCallFromPaul tweet on Avery's birthday
@holdengraber talks with the most interesting people
lithub.com/?s=phone+call+…
@lithub @CallFromPaul
Jack Palance & Gig Young have a good table at the nightclub where Nat King Cole is performing
πŸ“· Sid Avery, 1954
@smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Sid Avery's photo of the cast of Ocean's 11, 1960.
I got them all but three. How about you?
Richard Conte, Jerry Lester, Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Akim Tamiroff, Richard Benedict, Henry Silva, Norman Fell & Clem Harvey.
I missed Lester, Benedict & Harvey.
Steve McQueen & John Sturges in a shot by Sid Avery, 1978
Marlon Brando takes out the trash.
#TakeOutTheTrashDay
πŸ“· Sid Avery, 1955

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πŸ“· Erwin Blumenfeld, 1932
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πŸ“· Bob Berg, 1986
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