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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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!
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The frightful reality of things
Is my everyday discovery.
Happy birthday Fernando Pessoa 🎂
His bronze statue presides over the Caf a Brasileira on Rua Garrett in Lisbon.
📷 Horacio Villalobos, 2016
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"When Milton wrote a sonnet, he wrote as if he were to live or die by that sole sonnet. No sonnet should be written in any other spirit. An epigram may be a straw, but it should be the straw at which the dying poet grasps."
- Fernando Pessoa
Pessoa by Júlio Pomar
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"We are torn between the intuition which believes, and the reason which denies; that is the agonizing dilemma which Pessoa presents so vividly in his verse."
- Peter Rickard
Alfredo Margarido, A Biblioteca, 1988
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"I think of five grey-suited gentlemen: Constantin Cavafy, Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge Luis Borges. They are the ones who have renewed the language and shown us the way forward."
- Gabriel Josipovici
Alberto Caeiro's drawing of Fernando Pessoa, 1998
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At times I also hear the wind blow by
And find that merely to hear the wind blow makes
it worth having been born.
- Remembering Fernando Pessoa on his birthday
Rua Garrett in Lisbon
📷 F. Giaccone
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The old clock at Cafe A Brasileira on Rua Garrett in Lisbon, a favoured haunt of Fernando Pessoa. A bronze statue of the poet by Lagoa Henriques outside the cafe is a popular Lisbon sight.
📷 Horacio Villalobos, 2016
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A Júlio Pomar design for the Alto dos Moinhos metro station. Fernando Pessoa is joined by some of his heteronyms.
"Pessoa hived off separate personalities like swarms of bees."
- Cyril Connelly
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Eddy Mitchell & Les Chaussettes Noires
"Be bop a lula", 1961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj6H...