A nice recreation.
A small part of the main drag in Williams, AZ has a tasteful recreation of a wild west town:
iPhone6 snaps.
Category Archives: Photographers
Irving Penn – in a class of one
Irving Penn at the Met
Click the image.
If you could gaze upon the work of just one photographer, Irving Penn makes a strong claim to being that photographer.
It’s fitting that the most elegant woman of the past century, Lisa Fonssagrives, was to become Mrs. Penn.
Penn’s aesthetic can be traced to a lineage which includes Rembrandt, van Beyeren, Tissot and Jasper Johns.
Click the image for the NYT article.
Gloria
Film noir rules.
For more about the gorgeous Gloria Grahame, see here.
The movie is the noir classic In a Lonely Place. The other star is Humphrey Bogart.
Answering machine
Tony Snowdon passes
R.I.P.
Click the image for the interview.
Tony Snowdon died yesterday. One of the finest photographers of his time, Snowdon never cheapened or ridiculed his subjects, an approach consistent with his breeding.
You can see the 2001 Charlie Rose interview by clicking the image above.