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| Photo by Gjon Mili ~ Porgy and Bess, 1959
Singer, actress. Born November 9, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio, Dorothy Dandridge sang at Harlem’s famed Cotton Club and Apollo Theatre and became the first African American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress... ➔ biography.com
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Category: Photography
The Hills are alive
Eugene Robert Richee
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| Veronica Lake, 1943 |
Mini Biography ➔ Studio photographer who worked for Paramount Pictures from 1925 to 1935 and took many photos of actress Louise Brooks during her time at Paramount. Richee later worked for MGM and Warner Brothers. Brother-in-law of studio photographer Virgil Apger, who first worked for Richee and was then hired by MGM in 1931. ➔ IMDb
Frank + Kerouac
CLOSE UP
Eddy Novarro ~ Foujita, 1958
De son enfance roumaine, Eddy Novarro évoque peu de choses si ce n’est sa passion précoce pour la photographie. Pour photographier Coca, son premier amour d’enfance, il empruntait constamment le Leica de son père qui, au vu des résultats, finit par le lui donner. A la passion précoce pour la photo vint s’ajouter l’amour de l’art. Eddy Novarro se plaît à raconter qu’il a débarqué en 1946 à Rio avec pour seul pécule cinq dollars et un livre sur Gauguin, et que Modigliani et Van Gogh furent les révélations de son destin.
Dès 1952, il est photographe de presse professionnel. Ce sont toujours des personnages du monde des arts et de la culture qui ont été sensibles à la qualité des images de Novarro et qui l’ont spontanément présenté à des créateurs qu’ils tenaient eux-mêmes en haute estime. En quarante ans, Eddy Novarro a photographié les visages de près de six cents artistes de son temps, sans compter les souverains, les hommes d’Etat et les milliardaires de la finance ou de l’industrie.
Ce livre propose une sélection de 80 portraits d’artistes parmi les plus connus du XXe siècle.
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| ➔ Les Editions Cercle d’Art ➔ Texte de Pierre Restany |
AIDS Walk NY
John Penley ~ Keith Haring at ACT UP City Hall Protest [Tamiment Library, NYU]
➔ The Keith Haring Foundation
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John Penley is a photographer and grassroots political activist associated with the squatters’ rights movement and housing protests of the 1980s and 1990s in New York City’s East Village and Lower East Side. He began photographing as part of an effort to document the demonstrations, protests, and other political actions in which he took part, and in the process became a photo-journalist. Hundreds of Penley’s photographs have appeared in publications ranging from neighborhood newspapers to publications such as the Village Voice and the Washington Post. ➔ The John Penley Photographs Collection at New York University’s Tamiment Library
The Ladies of the Night
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| Brassaï ~ Dancers in Les Demoiselles de la Nuit, 1949 |
Les Demoiselles de la Nuit tells the story of a musician who falls in love with his beautiful cat Agathe, who has assumed semi-human form. Agathe tries to be faithful to her human lover but is lured away by the sound of tomcats and the call of freedom. She leaps off the rooftops and the musician falls to his death as he tries to grab hold of her. She falls after him and they are united in death.
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| Agathe/Margot Fonteyn |
World Premiere Les Ballets de Paris de Roland Petit, Theatre Marigny, Paris, May 21, 1948
Music by Jean Francaix
Choreography by Roland Petit
Libretto by Jean Anouilh
Scenery and costumes by Leonor Fini
Lighting by Peggy Clark
Cast Margot Fonteyn, Roland Petit, Gordon Hamilton, Joan Sheldon
Swarv
Ludwig
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| Karel Ludwig ~ Ballet Dancer, 1942 |
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| Ballet Dancers, 1942 ➔ The Baruch Foundation |















