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
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
John Ford, Bel Air, California
April 11, 1972 @MuseumModernArt #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Two shots of Stephen Sondheim, from July 10, 1961 & April 6, 2004 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Aretha Franklin, 1968 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
W. H. Auden in St. Mark's Place in Manhattan, 1960. #Avedon100
Read about this photo in Geoff Dyer's essay "On Avedon": threepennyreview.com/samples/dyer_fβ¦
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Gloria Vanderbilt, 1953
"Avedon was so important to me in my life. Not only as a friend, but what he gave me, what he did for me. I was kind of trying to get it all together, and he was one of the people to help me do it."
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Elton John & Kristen McMenamy for Gianni Versace, 1997 #Avedon100
James Stevenson @NewYorker, November 1, 1976
"Edgar just had his picture taken by Richard Avedon."
Richard Avedon's portrait of Dexter Gordon graces the cover of his 1981 album "Gotham City"
...and the back cover photo is even more impressive!
Dexter Gordon by Richard Avedon, 1981 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
W. Somerset Maugham, 1975.
Avedon wrote Truman Capote: "The smile from the corner of Maugham's mouth down puts anything on Jackie Kennedy's face out of business." #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Jacqueline Kennedy in her inaugural gown, designed by Oleg Cassini, 1961 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
His cover photo for "Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors", 1962 #Avedon100
Richard Avedon
Suzy Parker and Robin Tattersall, coat by Dior, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August 1, 1956
Richard Avedon
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, headed by Julian Bond, Atlanta, March 23, 1963 #Avedon100
Richard Avedon
Interstate 95 #1, Newark, New Jersey, May 18, 1963 #Avedon100
Richard Avedon
Evelyn Avedon, Petit St. Vincent, French West Indies, December 20, 1969 #Avedon100
Richard Avedon
New York Life #13 βοΈ
Harlem, New York, September 6, 1949 #Avedon100
Richard Avedon
Twiggy, hair by Ara Gallant, Paris, January 6, 1968 #Avedon100
Richard Avedon
Carmen (Homage to Munkacsi)
Coat by Cardin, Place Francois-Premier, Paris, August, 1957 #Avedon100
Here's the original that Avedon was paying homage to:
Martin MunkΓ‘csi
Jumping a Puddle, 1934
Richard Avedon
Italy #2, Trastevere, Rome, July 24, 1946 #Avedon100
Richard Avedon
Suzy Parker and Robin Tattersall, evening dress by Gres, Moulin Rouge, Paris, August 1957 #Avedon100
Richard Avedon
Jasper Johns, New York, April 29, 1976 #Avedon100
Avedon (1923, New York) & Johns (1930, Augusta, Georgia) share a birthday on May 15 ππ
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.
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
David Crosby by Graham Nash, Sag Harbor, New York, 1968
"This is my favorite image of David that I"ve ever taken. Just look at those thought processes going on in his head."