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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Eddy Mitchell & Les Chaussettes Noires
"Be bop a lula", 1961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj6H...
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Weegee
James Dean in Greenwich Village, c. 1955
This shot says a lot about Weegee. He's not immune to celebrity, but he was more interested in the human interest of the hug.
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Weegee by Philippe Halsman, 1945
And Weegee returns the favour in a nice portrait of Halsman.
Two photographers who fooled around a lot could get serious when they wanted to.
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Weegee by Hermann Landshoff
New York, 1948
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Weegee
Listening to Frank Sinatra, Palace Theater, 1944
So beautiful! For someone with such a brusque & matter-of-fact image, Weegee could come up with perfect, sensitive, graceful photographs.
Listen yourself:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRu...
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Weegee
Summer on the Lower East Side
1937
@metmuseum.org
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Weegee
Vegetable Dealer
1946
@metmuseum.org
"Through it all, he was a profound humanist & a compassionate observer of human beings, portraying them as innately tough, with the strength not only to survive but to flourish."
- Louis Stettner
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Walter Winchell by Weegee, 1950s
Winchell's blurb for Weegee's 1953 book Naked in Hollywood: "The candids of Louella and Hedda are belt-busters..."
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"Two of the best portraits Weegee ever made, of the columnists Hedda Hopper & Louella Parsons, appear in Naked Hollywood."
- Christopher Bonanos
@heybonanos.bsky.social
The quote is from Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous. Naked Hollywood by Weegee is from 1953.
Both books highly recommended!
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Stanley Kubrick spent the late 40s & 50s as a photographer for Look magazine, which is when he met Weegee.
The future director did some film set work himself. Here's something from Weegee's wheelhouse: a shot from the TV series Paddy Wagon, 1948
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The Dr. Strangelove set was full of superb artists & technicians, plus two outright geniuses: Peter Sellers & Stanley Kubrick. Both knew a great deal about photography, & Weegee treated the two as colleagues & icons.
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Weegee was hired as a "special effects advisor" for Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick probably got some visual inspiration from some of the shots he took. Here is Peter Sellers as Group Captain Mandrake, in Weegee's patented distorted view.
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Weegee takes a flash photo of Tracy Reed on the Dr. Strangelove set. The presence of a brash street photographer probably helped Reed & George C. Scott develop their performances & contributed to Dr. Strangelove's special style.
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Peter Sellers & Stanley Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove, 1963. A great shot by The Famous Weegee. 🎬
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Lots of great pictures & stories from Weegee's time as a still photographer on the set of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, 1963. Though he already had a photographer in place (Bob Penn is credited), Kubrick wanted his old friend on set, as a "talisman".
straight.com/movies/39407...
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📷 Bette Davis by Weegee, 1950
"Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art & the magic of the real."
- Susan Sontag
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Weegee
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
c. 1942
Museum of Modern Art
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📷 Weegee, Sammy’s on the Bowery, 1944
"One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images."
- Susan Sontag
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📷 Weegee, New York, 1942
"There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera."
- Susan Sontag
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📷 Weegee, 1950
"We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things & ourselves."
- John Berger, Ways of Seeing
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My favourite Brigid Brophy book: Mozart the Dramatist: The Value of His Operas to Him, to His Age and to Us
"To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century."
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Brigid Brophy is in another group portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in London
'Out' Group by Patrick Lichfield, July 1967
I don't know how this group was put together; some of the sitters look more "out" than others, & Brophy least of all.
Identified here:
npg.org.uk/collections/...
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On Brigid Brophy's birthday:
The Humanist Society by John Hedgecoe
bromide print, 1966
humanism.org.uk
Kingsley Martin, Leo Abse, Ludovic Kennedy, Edward Francis Williams, Alfred Jules Ayer, Brigid Brophy
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Chick Stewart by Frank Stewart
"Spain", Corea's best-known composition, from Return to Forever's 1971 album Light As A Feather. With a tip of the hat to Joaquin Rodrigo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEhQ...
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I love this shot by Guy le Querrec of Gary Burton & Chick Corea on the road, from 1983
Their Tiny Desk concert from June 13, 2016, 9 years ago tomorrow:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15IH...
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Chick Corea by Jan Persson, Copenhagen, 1987
"He’s among the most productive figures of jazz’s last 40 years, a worthy luminary with the instincts of a tinkerer, more committed to inquiry than to resolution."
- Nate Chinen
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Chick Corea rehearses Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall
📷 Michael Putland, November 1999
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Chick Corea performs with Return To Forever in London
📷 Dick Barnatt, May 4, 1976
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjOY...
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Two giants of music
Chick Corea and Friedrich Gulda: The Meeting, 1982
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E01Z...
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#RIP Brian Wilson
This is special: “Lucky Old Sun” from The Black Cabs Session. With a fabulous encore!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSXg...
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#RIP Brian Wilson
📷 Martyn Goodacre, Brixton Academy, London, June 1996
"California Girls"
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#RIP Brian Wilson
📷 Mark Seliger for Rolling Stone, 2017
"The best part of Brian is that he's never cared about having a Rolls-Royce or a huge mansion or a beachfront property, he's only cared about how great a song he can write."
- Jeff Foskett
"Lucky Old Sun":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjND...
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Brian Wilson by Annie Leibovitz, Beverly Hills, 2000
"I can’t write a song to save my life. I sit at the piano and try, but all I want to do is rewrite ‘California Girls.’ How am I gonna do something better than that? It’s a fucked-up trip."
#RIP
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Annie Leibovitz's portrait of Brian Wilson on the cover of Rolling Stone, November 1976
#RIP to a true prophet of music
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#RIP Brian Wilson
📷 Patrick Fraser, March 2002
"I was determined to shoot tight on his face as I knew his eyes would tell some stories from the past."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ2R...
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#RIP Brian Wilson
📷 Ludovic Carème
"Poetic, beautiful even in its obscurity, 'Surf's Up' is one aspect of new things happening in pop music today."
- Leonard Bernstein
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"Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how."
- BW
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All 12 of the shots in Richard Rutledge’s contact sheet from his 1952 photoshoot with Audrey Hepburn are great. But the shot they chose to print in Vogue’s March issue was from another batch. Outstanding.
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#RIP Brian Wilson
This is special: “Lucky Old Sun” from The Black Cabs Session. With a fabulous encore!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSXg...