John Lennon & George Martin listen to playback, in a photo by Frank Hermann from 1967.
Here's a #playback thread π§΅
I love the staring-into-space looks of the musicians, producers & engineers.
Gregor Piatigorsky listening to #playback of his Brahms sonatas
π· W. Eugene Smith, 1947
Bruno Walter listening to playback at Columbia Studios
π· Dennis Stock, 1959
Leonard Bernstein in a playback session.
π· Siegfried Lauterwasser
"Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear."
- Henry David Thoreau
Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans listen to playback in the studio.
π· Steve Schapiro, 1961
Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline Du Pre & Daniel Barenboim listen to the playback of the Beethoven "Ghost" Trio, op. 70 no. 1
π· David Hurn, 1970
What an extraordinary group of friends!
Studio backup singer @cher listens to #playback at a Phil Spector recording session at Gold Star Studios
π· Ray Avery, LA, 1964
Sir Thomas Beecham listens to the #playback of one of his Delius recordings
π· Erich Auerbach, 1949
Billie Holiday listens to #playback, in her last studio recording session
π· Milt Hinton, 1959
This is so sad; she was very ill by this time. Billie died on July 15, 1959
Don Hunstein
Bob Dylan listens to Highway 61 Revisited #playback in the booth of Columbia's Studio A, New York, summer 1965. That Dylan's manager Albert Grossman to his right.
Graham Nash
Stephen Stills at Wally Heider Recording Studio 3 on Selma Avenue, while listening to playback of 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes', 1969.
Jimi Hendrix listens to #playback with producer & engineer Eddie Kramer & studio manager Jim Marron at Electric Lady Studio in New York
π· Fred W. McDarrah, June 17, 1970
Nice to see this photo of the late Harry Belafonte listening to #playback in the studio. #RIP
Unidentified photographer, 1957
Marc Bolan & T-Rex listen to #playback at Rosenberg Studios, Copenhagen
π· Jorgen Angel, 1972
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band listen to #playback at The Power Station during the recording of The River
π· David Gahr, March 1980
Aretha Franklin listens to #playback with Neshui & Ahmet Ertegun & producer & engineer Tom Dowd
π· by David Gahr, April 1980
Frank Zappa listens to #playback of "We're Only In It For the Money".
π· Charlie Steiner, New York, August 1967
Listening to #playback of Carole King's Tapestry:
James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler
π· Jim McCrary, 1971
Gordon Parks
Duke Ellington listening to #playback, Los Angeles, 1960 @ngadc
Alfred Wertheimer
Elvis Presley in the studio, listening to #playback, 1956
Kwame Braithwaite
Cannonball Adderley, Great Northern Hotel, listening to #playback, early 60s
Linda McCartney
John Lennon listening to #playback during the recording of The White Album, 1968
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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.