Remembering Sid Avery on his birthday π
"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.
π· 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
Jack Palance & Gig Young have a good table at the nightclub where Nat King Cole is performing
π· 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
Remembering William Claxton on his birthday π
π· Don Weinstein
"When we started out, there were hardly any other photographers doing this kind of thing because there was no money in it. We started doing it because of the love of photography & the love of jazz."
- Herman Leonard
William Claxton
Thelonious Monk with a champagne cocktail πΈ
San Francisco, 1961
Remembering Dan Weiner on his birthday π
π· Broadway, New York, 1951
"He would take a picture of someone, and you, by looking at that, you become that person. You feel that person."
- John Broderick
During Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations, Columbia's 30th Street studio in Manhattan was crawling with great photographers: Gordon Parks, producer Fred Plaut, in-house photographer Don Hunstein, & today's birthday boy, Dan Weiner, who took these shots.
#RIP Angela Lansbury
π· Joyce Tenneson, 2001
"Lansbury is one of the few actors it makes sense to call beloved. (Science, or at least People magazine, confirmed it in 1994 when she scored a perfect 100 on a 'lovability index.')"
- Jesse Green
#RIP Angela Lansbury
π· Yousuf Karsh, 1946
One of Karsh's most perfect portraits, I think.
#RIP Angela Lansbury
π· Philippe Halsman, 1944
5 Tony Awards
18 Emmy Awards nominations
3 Academy Award nominations
Remembering Eva Pennink on her birthday π
π· Erwin Blumenfeld, 1932
Pennink worked as a photographer, fashion editor & artist, in a long career that encompassed most of the 20th century. The Rijksmuseum purchased 24 of her photo albums; a fascinating collection!
Eva Pennink
Untitled (figures and record player), paper collage
Eva Pennink
Mexico photo album, c. 1954 @rijksmuseum
Remembering Peter Hujar on his birthday π
π· Bob Berg, 1986
"His pictures share, in place of a style, an unfailing rigor that can only be experienced, not described." - Peter Schjeldahl
Peter Hujar
Paul Thek, Nude, Astride Zebra, 1965
Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar, 1975
"He lived in different worlds, he touched many people, and his work, like so few photographs, canβt be forgotten and becomes even deeper and more compelling over time."
- Nan Goldin
Happy birthday Thomas Struth π
π· Rineke Dijkstra
"It is time to say that Struthβs pictures regularly take my breath away. I find it hard to look at them steadily for any length of time, so intense is their effect on my emotions."
- Peter Schjeldahl
Thomas Struth
Crosby Street, New York, 1978
Thomas Struth
Tokamak Asdex Upgrade Periphery, Max Planck IPP, Garching, 2009