dean.bsky.social
aka Deny Fear
📷 Esther Bubley
Man on Platform, c. 1951
Profile pic by Carl Barks!
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
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When Voormann showed Brian Epstein his Revolver cover, Epstein broke into tears.
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That’s an excellent illustration. I had no idea Voormann was such a talented artist (besides bass that is).
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You’re welcome!
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“John said, ‘Oh, we’ll rehearse on the plane.’ So there we were, sitting in the last row, next to the jets, and me playing an electric bass with no amplifier.”
Klaus Voormann's wonderful drawing of The Plastic Ono Band en route to Toronto, 1969. Alan White with the sticks!
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Alan White playing with Yes at Madison Square Garden
📷 Michael Putland, September 1978
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHQM...
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BTW, in 1960 Char was to have been in the Facel Vega with Albert Camus & Michel Gallimard that killed them both, but he took the train instead.
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The Surrealist Constellation, by Valentine Hugo, 1932
Portraits of Paul Éluard, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, birthday boy René Char, Benjamin Peret, René Crevel
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René Char with André Breton in Marseilles, 1941
That year, Breton left for America, & Char stayed behind to work, as "Captain Alexandre", with the Resistance.
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René Char with Paul Eluard, c. 1940
Martin Heidegger called Char's poetry "A tour de force into the ineffable."
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René Char with Albert Camus in Isle-sur-Sorgue, Vaucluse, 1940
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Jason Adam Katzenstein
New Yorker, June 6, 2016
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I was in Paris when they wrapped the Pont Neuf. Absolute meaningless beauty.
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You too!
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Happy Friday to all! 🧁🧁
William Haefeli, New Yorker, April 14, 2014
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“'The Second Coming' may well be the most thoroughly pillaged piece of literature in English."
- Nick Tabor on W. B. Yeats's omnipresent poem, at The Paris Review
theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04...
Speaking of which:
Paul Noth, New Yorker, October 27, 2014
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Edward Sorel's cover illustration for Hugh Kenner's A Colder Eye, Modern Irish Writers, 1983
Today's birthday boy, W. B. Yeats, with Sean O’Casey, James Joyce, J.M. Synge, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lady Gregory and Samuel Beckett
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W. B. Yeats by Augustus John
pencil and wash, c. 1910
Don't know if this passed Yeats' inspection or not.
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W. B. Yeats with Walter de la Mare in a snapshot print by Lady Ottoline Morrell
Summer 1930
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W. B. Yeats by George Rinhart, 1923
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This is the John Singer Sargent portrait that W.B. Yeats preferred to the Augustus John picture.
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W.B. Yeats rejected this Augustus John portrait. John said it was because "he wanted to look the youthful Shelley in a lace collar."
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Ian Carmichael and Glyn Houston in the BBC production of Dorthy Sayers' Clouds of Witness, 1972
I very much enjoyed the whole series of Peter Wimsey adaptations on Masterpiece Theatre.
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P. D. James reads Dorothy Sayers’ Have His Carcase
📷 Michael Putland, 1982
I remember going through all the Lord Peter Wimsey books in a row one summer. From Whose Body? (1923) to Busman's Honeymoon (1937). Binge reading at its best.
Dang! That must've been more than 50 years ago!
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Peter Bogdanovich directs Ben Johnson & Sam Bottoms in The Last Picture Show, 1971. Johnson swept the Supporting Actor awards that year: Oscars, BAFTA, Golden Globes.
Douglas Kirkland was the still photographer on set.
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Remembering Ben Johnson on his birthday 🎂
On the set of James Frawley's Kid Blue, 1973.
Just a hunch, but I wonder if his co-star Dennis Hopper might have taken this shot; he often had his camera along on-set.
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Ben Johnson hangs by his ankle in Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks
📷 Sam Shaw, 1959
The scene was cut from the film; it's not easy being an actor!
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Ben Johnson with Warren Oates, William Holden & Ernest Borgnine in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, 1969. The still photographer on the set was Bernie Abramson.
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Joe Pesci in Howard Franklin's The Public Eye, 1992. "Loosely based" on Weegee's career.
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For Christo & Jeanne-Claude's birthday today, this Charles Schulz comic from November 20, 1978.
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Chris Steele-Perkins
Dusk, the wrapped lamps, 1985
Pont Neuf wrapped by Christo & Jeanne-Claude
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Christo & Jeanne-Claude in New York
📷 Yann Gamblin for Paris Match, 1994
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Elliott Erwitt's photograph of "Wrapped Reichstag" by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Berlin, 1995.
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Christo poses for Thomas Hoepker with a drawing for his Berlin Reichstag project (with Jeanne-Claude) in his Manhattan studio, 1993
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Christo & Jeanne-Claude
The Wall - 13,000 Oil Barrels
Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, 1998-99
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Christo
Wrapped Portrait of Jeanne-Claude, 1963
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For Christo & Jeanne-Claude's birthdays, Mort Gerberg's
April 4, 1994 New Yorker cartoon
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Jeanne-Claude at the Chelsea Hotel, 1964
Unidentified photographer
Cyril is Jeanne-Claude & Christo's son; he would have been 4 years old at the time. Of course the Xmas tree was wrapped!