Happy birthday Richard Kalvar 🎂
📷 Wet self-portrait, 2014
"Life is a farce, the skill is in showing it."
Coffee time! ☕️
Café "Au Sauvignon", Paris
📷 Richard Kalvar, 1974
Paul Newman at Le Mans, 1979
📷 Richard Kalvar
Richard Kalvar
Pedestrians on the Champs-Elysées, 2013
Richard Kalvar
Wat Aumarinthraram, Bangkok, 2007
Here begins a cat thread within this birthday thread. You've been warned! 🐈⬛
Richard Kalvar
Henry Chapier with his cat, at the Café “Le Sélect”, Montparnasse, 2007
Richard Kalvar
Arcachon, Gironde, 2013
Richard Kalvar, 1993
"Attention au chien"
Henri Cartier-Bresson with his daughter Mélanie at their country home in Montjustin.
📷 Richard Kalvar, 1978
During that same 1978 visit to Provence, Richard Kalvar took this wonderful shot of a third great Magnum photographer, HCB's wife & Mélanie's mother, Martine Franck.
Richard Kalvar
A nun in front of an advertising poster for "Vedette", representing la Mère Denis, 1974. The Magnum caption says the nun is "an Henri Cartier-Bresson look-alike" - I'm assuming that's Kalvar's joke. And a good one it is!
Richard Kalvar
Michigan delegation, Republican National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, 1976
The Magnum caption: "Smart enough to smoke and chew gum at the same time." Again, I'm assuming this is Kalvar's caption work.
Time for another cup of coffee! ☕️
Richard Kalvar
Brasserie Lipp, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 1999
Philippe Noiret by Richard Kalvar, 1990
Here's a moving photograph by Richard Kalvar:
Claude Lanzmann with his arm around Simone De Beauvoir, at Jean-Paul Sartre's funeral, 1980
Vincent Van Gogh's last place of residence, a room at the Auberge Ravoux, Auvers-sur-Oise.
📷 Richard Kalvar, 1993
Richard Kalvar
Looking at Jackson Pollock, 1969 @MuseumModernArt
Celebrate the Veronica Lake Centennial 🎂💯
📷 George Hurrell, 1941
"I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair."
Veronica Lake was so good in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, 1941.
I was absurdly pleased to find out this outfit was designed by Edith Head, who did the costumes for the film. Great shot by Talmadge Morrison, the on set still photographer #VeronicaLake100
A lovely shot by Talmadge Morrison of Joel McCrea & Veronica Lake, in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels, 1941
It must have been a relief for Edith Head to move on to this scene. #VeronicaLake100
Remembering Roger Parry on his birthday 🎂
📷 Self-portrait, c. 1929 @mpatrimphoto
"Parry juggled with the art of seeing and the art of being seen, constantly adding a theatrical dimension to his photographs."
Celebrate the Oskar Werner Centennial 🎂
With François Truffaut on the set of Fahrenheit 451
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1966
Though star & director did not get along on a very unhappy set, as @tnyfrontrow says, "... the film remains audaciously surprising even now."
Oskar Werner by Philippe Halsman, 1966
"To me the stage is sculpture. Films are like a painted poster, spread out on a one-dimensional surface."
Oskar Werner & Henri Serre on the set of François Truffaut's Jules et Jim
📷 Raymond Cauchetier, 1962
"Jules and Jim is one of those rare films that knows how fast audiences can think, & how emotions contain their own explanations."
- Roger Ebert
Remembering Robert Whitaker on his birthday 🎂
📷 A self-portrait in Hamburg during The Beatles' last world tour, 1966
""I learned when to poke a camera at them and when not to."
The Beatles making a promotional film for their single "I Feel Fine"
📷 Robert Whitaker, November 1965
John Lennon by Robert Whitaker, 1964
Once again, when shooting musicians, sunglasses are a photographer's best friend.
Remembering Carleton Watkins on his birthday 🎂
📷 Self-portrait, 1883
"He was not just the greatest American landscape photographer of the 19th century but one of the greatest American artists of the 19th century & one of the great photographers, period."
- Michael Kimmelman
Carleton Watkins
Tutocanula, 3,600 ft, El Capitan, Yosemite
Remembering Mose Allison on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jack Vartoogian, 1998
"In the South, I’m considered an advanced bebop type. In New York, I’m considered a country blues-folk type. Actually, I don’t think I’m either. Maybe I’m a little of both."
Mose Allison by Ebet Roberts, 1989
"He established himself playing & singing in a gentle, understated way, in a narrow range & using a bouncing, jigging rhythm that was closely related to the so-called 'swamp music' that Jimmy Giuffre was playing."
- John S. Wilson
Mose Allison by Michael Wilson
"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
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