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Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest!
Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest!
Thine be ilka joy and treasure,
Peace. enjoyment, love, and pleasure!
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, alas, forever!
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@BelleNoelPhoto
These are all wonderful!
Here are two more shots of Julia Child by her husband Paul, from 1955 & 56.
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Jacques Prévert's screenplay for Les enfants du paradis, directed by Marcel Carné, 1945. I'm sure there's never been another screenplay like this, though perhaps Wes Anderson might attempt one...
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The 13 episodes of John McGreevy's documentary series "Cities" were shown on CBC-TV in 1979-80. Only a few are available on YouTube. Studs Terkel's Chicago is wonderful:
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#RIP
Christopher Plummer
With Julie Andrews in a marvellous 2015 photograph by Annie Leibovitz
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#RIP
Tony Vaccaro
He took my favourite Leonard Cohen portrait, in Nashville in 1968. Cohen was buying a car.
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Francis Bacon died on this day in 1992.
A poignant line from his final interview: "I painted to be loved."
Photo: Ian Berry, 1967
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Remembering Nina Simone on her birthday 🎂
📷 David Redfern, 1966
"Every generation has to discover Nina Simone. She is evidence that female genius is real."
- Germaine Greer
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Another shot by David Kynoch from the set of Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career, 1979: Sam Neill
@TwoPaddocks
Today we're celebrating Gillian Armstrong's birthday - such a fine director! 🎂
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I love this shot of Cicely Tyson by Eve Arnold
New York, 1968
The great actress died today, at 96
#RIP
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#RIP
Bruce McCall
The pride of Simcoe, Ontario 🇨🇦
So many great
@NewYorker
covers; here are some of my favourites.
Tour de France, July 25, 2005
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Happy birthday Joan Baez 🎂
A great portrait by Philippe Halsman, from 1967
"Her voice was like that of a siren from off some Greek island. Just the sound of it could put you into a spell. She was an enchantress."
- Bob Dylan
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A thread of album covers featuring Richard Avedon portraits.
From 1960: Igor Stravinsky conducts The Rite of Spring
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Remembering Groucho Marx on his birthday 🎂
📷 Slim Aarons, 1954
"Wanna dance?" he asked, softly.
"Aren't you Groucho Marx, the living legend?"
"It's not my fault all the others are dead," Groucho said.
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Remembering George Carlin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1981
"There were other court jesters before Carlin and alongside Carlin, but Carlin was more powerful and dangerous to the king."
- Journey Gunderson
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"Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness."
- Glenn Gould
Photo: Yousuf Karsh, 1957
@holdengraber
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My darling Dixie died on Friday morning, 5 months from her diagnosis of ovarian cancer. We had a wonderful life together, with amazing kids
@WxAlexandra
&
@nicholastristan
Our retirement in
#YYJ
was perfect, only too short.
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#RIP
Sidney Poitier
Star Power: with Louis Armstrong & Paul Newman on the set of Paris Blues, 1961
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A thread of photographs by Emile Zola
I didn't even know he was a photographer until this morning, but, man, this is a really amazing shot of his two children with Jeanne Rozerot
Denise et Jacques courant et riant devant le perron de la maison de Verneuil, c. 1900
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Dorothea Lange
"Next time try the train."
One of her most famous photographs.
California, 1932
A
#train
thread 🚂
@holdengraber
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For Bob Dylan's birthday, my favourite portraits
📷 Elliott Landy, Woodstock NY, 1968
Outside his Byrdcliffe home, infrared color film
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Happy birthday Neil Young 🎂
📷 Mark Seliger
"An artist like Neil always has the upper hand. It’s the pop world that has to make adjustments."
- Bob Dylan
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#RIP
Joe Flaherty
With Andrea Martin, John Candy, Martin Short & Eugene Levy
Guy Caballero watches over them all, in this SCTV Network 90 photo by Alan F. Singer, 1983
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Remembering Jacques Tati on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Willoughby, 1957
"The guy is so creative, it’s unbelievable. I think he’s one of the all-time greats."
- David Lynch
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I really enjoyed Werner Herzog’s new memoir, Every Man For Himself and God Against All. He tells some great stories.
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For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, my favourite portraits
📷 Elliott Landy, Woodstock NY, 1968
Outside his Byrdcliffe home, infrared color film
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#RIP
Françoise Gilot
📷 Lee Miller, La Galloise, Vallauris, 1953
"I’m never afraid of anything. That’s not my style. If I would be afraid, then I would not do it. But, I am not afraid. Why should I be afraid? Afraid of what?"
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Remembering Joseph Heller on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ed Molinari, NY Daily News, 1979 🌭
"He had a standard response to those who told him he hadn't written another novel as good as Catch-22: 'Who has?'"
- Peter Guttridge
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Happy birthday John Malkovich 🎂
📷 Mark Seliger
"In Chicago, nobody gives two fucks about you, which is one of the things I like about it."
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Robert Johnson was born on this day in 1911.
With Johnny Shines, 1935.
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And here's a treat:
David Kaff (Viv Savage), Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), R. J. Parnell (Mick Shrimpton), Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls) and Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins) of Spinal Tap, in a shot taken by Bob Gruen, backstage at CBGB, May 6, 1984
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Remembering Sidney Poitier on his birthday 🎂
When Poitier died last month, this wonderful portrait was everywhere on Twitter & on the web, but rarely with a photo credit. It's by
@NYTimes
photographer Sam Falk, from 1959.
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#RIP
Julian Sands
As Franz Liszt in James Lapine's Impromptu, 1991
Hugh Grant was Frederic Chopin. Pretty good casting, I think.
The still photographer on the set was Jean-Marie Leroy
#stillonset
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James Baldwin dancing with a CORE worker in New Orleans
Photo: Steve Schapiro, 1963
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Groucho Marx by Michael Childers
Beverly Hills, 1976
Childers remembers this shot:
"I went up to his house. It was the day of his 85th birthday. He was all dressed up in his Mickey Mouse t-shirt and his Mickey Mouse hat. It was extraordinary."
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#RIP
Glenda Jackson
📷 Lord Snowdon, 1970
"Look—it’s always hard; it’s always the first time you’ve done it. It would be nice to think that experience cushioned you—it doesn’t. Ain’t no good going out there & saying, 'I used to be great,' or 'You should have seen me last night'."
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“I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.”
- Louise Brooks
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Happy birthday Suze Rotolo 🎂
📷 David Gahr, Newport, July 1963
Bob Dylan said that when he first met Rotolo, "The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves."
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#RIP
Reg E. Cathey
As Guildenstern, with Kevin Kline as Hamlet & Philip Goodwin as Rosencrantz in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet
Photo: Martha Swope, 1990
@NYPL
digital collection
@AoDespair
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#RIP
Astrud Gilberto
📷 PoPsie Randolph
This photo was taken in Birdland on August 19, 1964, the day they recorded Stan Getz Quartet's live album "Getz Au Go Go"
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The West Side Story Brain Trust:
Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Harold Prince, Robert E. Griffith, Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1957
#RIP
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This is my favourite:
"May you be able to steal many happy moments!"
Philippe & Yvonne Halsman's 1963 New Year's Card
@metmuseum
@holdengraber
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Happy birthday Jeff Bridges 🎂
📷 Mark Seliger for Rolling Stone, 2010
"Sometimes, just on his own, Jeff Bridges is enough to make a picture worth seeing."
- Pauline Kael
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For
#InternationalWomensDay
, my favourite photos by my favourite women photographers
📷 Tina Modotti
Telephone Wires, Mexico
c. 1925
Palladium print
@MuseumModernArt
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I didn't know that Robert Bresson began his career as a photographer. He did advertising & fashion work, but I've also come across some art photos of a surrealist nature. There are three photos in the Centre Pompidou collection, all "sans tire", from c. 1932
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"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
- William Blake, Marriage of Heaven & Hell
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On Candice Bergen's birthday, a Henry Clarke photo with her dog, a "rescued mutt". That's a neighbour's dog in the window.
For Vogue, 1971
In this thread I'll be featuring Bergen's photographs; she went well beyond being just a hobbyist as a photographer.
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Agnès Varda lived for more than 50 years in this house on the rue Daguerre, in the 14th arrondissement in Paris. She documented the neighborhood in her 1976 documentary Daguerréotypes:
Photo: Martine Franck, 1983
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Dora Maar photographed by Picasso, 1936
I don't think I've seen a Picasso photo before. Pretty impressive.
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Remembering Yves Saint Laurent on his birthday 🎂
This Loomis Dean photo is so poignant. YSL, only 21, after the funeral of his mentor Christian Dior, 1957
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Sad to hear of the death of the great photographer Erich Lessing, who died on August 29, at the age of 95.
For my
#WorldPhotographyDay
thread I chose his photo of Glenn Gould, from West Berlin, 1957, as my favourite.
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For
#InternationalWomensDay
, my favourite photos by my favourite women photographers
Lauren Bacall outside her Alma Mater, Julia Richmond High School
📷 Nina Leen, 1945
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Happy birthday Martha Argerich 🎂
📷 Lise Buhs, mid-1960s
"Only the greatest artists are able to maintain the freshness of discovery with the depth of thoughtfulness. Martha Argerich is one of them."
- Daniel Barenboim
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"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world." - Rene Magritte
"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
- Rene Magritte, born on this day in 1898.
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On Patti Smith's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
Allen Tannenbaum's photograph of Patti Smith at CBGB
New Year's Eve, 1977
Fuck the Clock
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I'm teaching myself more about still photographers on movie sets. "Le photographe de plateau" is the name in French. I'll begin with a random thread, but hope to dig deeper in the future. 📷🎥
Jack Lemmon in Glengary Glen Ross; a great shot by Andrew Schwarz, 1992
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Remembering Peter Cook on his birthday 🎂
📷 Cecil Beaton, 1962
@NPGLondon
"He didn't lose his powers. He just lost interest in proving that he possessed them."
- Clive James
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Remembering Nico on her birthday 🎂
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1965
"I’ve been on the top, I’ve been on the bottom. Both places are empty."
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This is truly fantastic:
The two-year-old Charlie Watts with his mother Lillian and father Charles in Piccadilly Circus in 1943
📷 Linda Roots
Even then he dressed so perfectly.
#RIP
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Jean-Luc Godard by William Klein, 1960
Klein excelled in fashion, street, art and portrait photography.
My favourite Godard portrait, by the late photographer.
#RIP
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Remembering Marvin Gaye, who died on this day in 1984
Annie Leibovitz, 1972
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“Hands have a history of their own, they have, indeed, their own civilization, their special beauty."
- Rilke
A thread of
#hands
@holdengraber
📷 Walter Limot
La main de Colette, 1934
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Remembering Oscar Wilde on his birthday 🎂
Wilde as an undergraduate, April 3, 1876.
📷 Hills & Saunders
@NYPL
digital archive
"Some things are too important to be taken seriously."
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Umberto Eco makes music with his wife Renate. Their son is sitting on the steps in the background.
Photo: David Lees
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Alan J. Pakula died on this day in 1998.
With the cast of his film All The President’s Men
Warner Brothers, 1976
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Remembering Marguerite Yourcenar on her birthday.
One of the greatest of author photos, by Thomas Hoepker
Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1985
"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
- Jorge Luis Borges
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@beatonna
I love how, when Robert Frank left New York for Nova Scotia in 1971, he put a sign out. “Back in ten minutes”.
📷 Another World (Mabou Harbour, Nova Scotia), from the "Untitled" portfolio, 1976-77
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Remembering Charlie Watts on his birthday 🎂
📷 Deborah Feingold, 1992
"To me, Charlie Watts was the secret essence of the whole thing."
- Keith Richards
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Remembering Walker Evans on his birthday 🎂
A self-portrait from c. 1934
"Stare. It is a way to educate your eye, & more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
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Carson McCullers & Tennessee Williams by Richard Avedon, April 25, 1950
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#RIP
Ahmad Jamal
📷 Frank Stewart, 2013
"The piano is a natural instrument for me. I’ve always had a certain touch. It’s been part of my life for so long. It has never been an effort to play it, just an effort to do all the things I want to do."
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Coleman Hawkins by Bob Parent, 1953
"If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there."
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Melinda Sue Gordon's shot of the wonderful Minnie Driver on the set of Grosse Pointe Blank, 1997
#stillonset
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I hadn't heard of the photographer Fred Plaut. It turns out taking pictures was a side-gig; what he really did was engineer great recordings for Columbia: Miles's Kind of Blue, Brubeck's Time Out, Bruno Walter, & Glenn Gould. The latter shown here in 1955.
Not bad for an amateur!
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Remembering Art Farmer on his birthday 🎂
One of my favourite jazz photos: Art Farmer & Lee Konitz by Guy Le Querrec, March 1989
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For Bette Davis's birthday, this fabulous portrait by Erwin Blumenfeld, Vogue, 1951
“Bette Davis trailed the subject of acting across the audience’s path with all the preemptive originality of Queen Elizabeth spreading ermine on the ground before Raleigh.”
- David Thomson
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A sad photograph for
#NationalDogDay
:
Neil Simon by Annie Leibovitz for American Express Members, 1989
#RIP
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#RIP
Olivia de Havilland
I'll post my favourite portraits, beginning with this marvellous one by Bob Landry, from 1942
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Remembering Humphrey Bogart on his birthday 🎂
📷 Phil Stern, 1955
The lead role on Blood Alley was to be Robert Mitchum, but he was fired after an altercation with William Wellman. Bogie took these shots on set, but he asked for too much money, & the role went to John Wayne!
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Happy birthday to The
@NewYorker
, whose 1st issue was on this day in 1925.
E.B. White in 1955
Photo: Bettmann
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#RIP
Sabine Weiss
"All the pictures I take are entirely instant. What I like is to make an instant picture. Even if there are no people, I like the click, click, click. I never wait."
My favourite shot of Sabine Weiss, by Xavier de Fenoyl, 2014
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I've been meaning to post a thread of great photographer portraits by great photographers.
A great start, I think: a young Henri Cartier-Bresson, by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1935. HCB was 27; GHH was 35.
@MuseumModernArt
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
#RIP
V.S. Naipaul
Photo: Ian Berry, 1981
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Remembering Orson Welles on his birthday 🎂
📷 Sam Lévin, 1962
"Orson Welles is a giant with the face of a child, a tree filled with birds and shadows, a dog who has broken loose and gone to sleep in the flower bed."
- Jean Cocteau
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A thread of almost portraits.
Ennio Morricone by Guido Harari, 1998
A masterpiece of metonymy
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