Thread by @dean_frey

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Jean-Pierre Melville at home with his cat
A. Abbas, Paris, 1972

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Balthus at home with his cat
Martine Franck, Rossinière, Switzerland, 1999

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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Our cat Ulysses and Martine's shadow, 1989

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Robert Indiana & Andy Warhol with a friend, in Warhol's studio
Bruce Davidson, NY, 1964

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Edward Albee + cat, by Philippe Halsman, 1961

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Paul Bowles + cat, by Herbert List
Morocco, 1956

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Patricia Highsmith at home with her cat
Martine Franck, 1975

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Henri Matisse, at work in bed, gets a visit from his cat
Robert Capa, Nice, 1950

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Leonor Fini at home with her cat
Martine Franck, Paris, 1981

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Wanda Landowska + cat + harpsichord
Philippe Halsman, 1944

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Saul Steinberg + cat, by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Vermont, 1947

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Igor Stravinsky + cat, by Henri Cartier-Bresson
California, 1947

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Françoise Sagan and her cat
Burt Glinn, 1958

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Twiggy with her cat
Burt Glinn, London, 1966

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Paul Gallico with his cats
George Rodger, Salcombe Devon, 1952

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Professor Louis Leakey's cat sleeps beside a skull
Ian Berry, Kenya, 1965

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Alec Soth, Unselfie (+ cat), 2015

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Hemingway seems to be having a tiff with one of his cats
Tore Johnson, 1954

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Jorge Luis Borges + cat
Ferdinando Scianna, Palermo, Sicily, 1984

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Michel Foucault and his cat
Martine Franck, Paris, 1978

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Diego Giacometti at home with his cat
Martine Franck, Paris, 1985

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Dudley Moore at home with his cat
Ian Berry, London, 1967

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Kitty Carlisle #Jump
Philippe Halsman, 1958
Naturally, the cat refused to jump

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Anne Bancroft with her kitten in the back of a limousine
Dennis Stock, NY, 1960

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Susan Meiselas & Nancy Weiss Lyon
Danny Lyon, Bernalillo NM, 1979

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The Dalai Lama at home, with an enlightened cat
Raghu Rai, Dharamsala, c.1979

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The amazing Maggie Gyllenhaal with her cat
Alec Soth, 2006

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Monica Bellucci & her cat, by Ferdinando Scianna
Palazzolo Acreide, 1997

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Edward Weston + kitten, by Henri Cartier-Bresson
California, 1947

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Beat poet Gregory Corso + beat cat in Alan Ginsberg's East Village apartment
Burt Glinn, 1959

Vivien Lee with New Boy, her Siamese cat
I wish more photo captions would include the cat's name!

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Jan Morris with her cat Ibsen
David Hurn, 1999

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Carole Lombard + cat
John Kobal Foundation, 1945

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Bow down before this cat.
Elliott Erwitt, Rome, 1959

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Zappa + cat
Gab Archive

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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain

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Winston Churchill stops to pet a cat in Liverpool Street. Seems to be a Labour cat.
Keystone/Hulton Archive

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Stan Laurel filming Oliver Hardy with a helpful cat cinematographer
John Kobal Foundation, 1928

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Terence Rattigan in his Eaton Square flat with his black cat
Popperfoto, 1954

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Frank Stella in his studio with his cat
Photo: Michael Tighe, 1975

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Fred Astaire with his Siamese cat
Photo: John Swope

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Gore Vidal + cat
Writer Pictures

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Allen Ginsberg + cat
Photo: Fred W. McDarrah, New York, 1960

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Andrew Lloyd Webber + cat
Photo: Michael Brennan, New York, 1977

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James Mason + cat
Hulton Archive, c. 1945

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Marlon Brando + cat
Photo: Murray Garrett, Los Angeles, 1954

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Alan Hovhaness & his cat
Gordon Parks, 1955

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The few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
- Colette

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Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky with his cat Mississippi

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Aaron Copland with his cat, c1947
Via @LibraryCongress

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The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
- Norbert Wiener, Philosophy of Science

Everything in one chart: @pseudooctopus's Breaking Cat News explains the universe.

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Sandy Wilson with his cat
John Pratt, 1955

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Kingsley Amis at home with his cat
Bryn Colton, London, 1985

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Raymond Chandler with his cat, 1954

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Georges Perec and his cat
I wish I knew who took this photo. It's on the cover of David Bellos's biography.

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Haruki Murakami with a kitten