Portrait of a woman with a peacock feather over one eye

György Kepes
Juliette avec une plume de paon
1937-38

Night shot Pedestrians at Time Square

François Le Diascorn
Times Square : les lumières de la ville, 2002

if you see this, post something orange from your gallery

Odilon Redon
Fantaisie : éclatement orange et bleu, sur fond sombre

Today is Redon’s birthday 🎂

Book cover Dérive - Photographs by Jessica Lange A cojple sitting on a park bench. He wears a trench coat & a hat; she has a scarf on her head.

Jessica Lange's Dérive, 2023

The title is taken from Guy Debord’s Theory of the Dérive (1956): “In a dérive (unplanned journey) one drops all their usual motives for movement and action and let themselves be drawn by the attractions—usually urban and the encounters they find there.”

Book cover: Black & white photo of the corner of a stone building. Looking up, there's a large dog looking down. Crossed telephone/power lines.

Jessica Lange's 2008 book 50 Photographs has a foreword by Patti Smith.

Lange began shooting when Sam Shepherd brought home a Leica in 1993.

"I’d go down into the basement after the kids were in bed, put on some Al Green & Sam Cooke, & develop pictures."

People standing & sitting outside a restaurant. French Fries Carolina Pork BBQ Baked Potato

Jessica Lange is a very fine photographer. This is "Minnesota", from her 2019 book Highway 61.

"These photographs are a chronicle of what remains and what has disappeared. It has a long memory, Highway 61."
- JL

Paparazzo-style photo of the couple, Lange wrapped up in a fur coat.

Jessica Lange with Bob Fosse
📷 Art Zelin, 1970s

"I was so incredibly naive about what was business and what was caring in Hollywood. It turns out it was all business."

Lange in a black & white dress & sunglasses, sitting on Jones' lap in a 1950s turquoise & white car.

Jessica Lange with Tommy Lee Jones in Tony Richardson's Blue Sky, 1994, for which Lange won her second Oscar.

There were two still photographers on set: Cliff Lipson & Abram Perlstein
#stillonset

Lange at a party

Happy birthday Jessica Lange 🎂
📷 Frank Edwards, 1977

“It’s odd that she seems less impressed by movies than, say, Michelle Pfeiffer, yet far more powerful on screen.”
- David Thomson
#filmsky

i was OBSESSED with her from the age of 12 after reading about her in the sunday times colour supplement. google is telling me was october 17th 1982. i was at prep school and read it after being dropped back there from home. here's the cover. she was so gorgeous.

Sedgwick as Susan Superstar poses with Warhol & a mystery piece of technology.

Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol on the set of John Palmer & David Weisman's Ciao! Manhattan, 1971

Sedgwick died a few weeks after finishing the film.

The still photographer on the set was Bob Adelman #stillonset

Can anyone identify the device Andy is leaning on?

Edie & Andy with friends at a Factory party.

“Edie Sedgwick with the blonde hair & the dark eyebrows - she didn't mess around. Platinum hair & black brows. She was really something. I saw her & Andy Warhol in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was like seeing a black & white movie in person.”
- Patti Smith

📷 Steve Schapiro

Edie has awakened in her hotel bed, & is joined by Andy & Chuck.

Harry Shunk & János Kender
Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick & Chuck Wein, hôtel Royale Bison, Paris, May 1965

Sedgwick holds a dancer’s pose, perched on a rhinoceros figure in her apartment.

Edie Sedgwick by Enzo Sellerio, Vogue, August 1965

“Her physicality was so refreshing she exposed all the dishonesty in the room.”
- Robert Rauschenberg

Miller as Sedgwick, wearing a white fur & a leopard skin patterned hat.

Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick, on location in Central Park while filming George Hickenlooper's Factory Girl
📷 Arnaldo Magnani, 2006

Sedgwick smiles at the camera, holding her drink & cigarette in one hand.

Edie Sedgwick by Jerry Schatzberg, 1966

Closeup of the two talking together

John Cale & Edie Sedgwick at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry annual dinner at The Delmonico Hotel
📷 Adam Ritchie, 1966

Drinks and cigarettes at the Factory

Fred W. McDarrah's photo of a Factory party in 1965. That's John Ashbery in profile on the right, & Edie Sedgwick in the group on the left.

A different pose of the three at their manhole

One more time:
Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol & Chuck Wein by Burt Glinn, 1965

The three emerge from a manhole on a New York street, Andy with a camera & Edie & Chuck back to back.

Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick & Chuck Wein by Burt Glinn, 1965

Sedgwick with a drink & a cigarette. She’s wearing a black dress & large earrings.

Remembering Edie Sedgwick on her birthday 🎂
📷 Jerry Schatzberg, 1966

"She is at once Jean Harlow and Jean Seberg, as beautiful and nervous as a hummingbird, and just as alive."
- Manohla Dargis

Book cover John Eliot Gardiner Bach - Music in the Castle of Heaven 18th century engraving in gold on a black background.

On John Eliot Gardiner's birthday, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, one of my favourite books on music, from 2013

"You feel you are being taken by the scruff of the neck, & required to confront big issues - the nature of kingship, of identity, or of what happens when truth faces falsehood."

Swoon!!

I would absolutely rock this coat.

I would wear this robe for damn sure

I saw the Miró exhibit at the Phillips Collection yesterday - I do recommend

Huge movie marquee, with cars & pedestrians in front.

Glenn Ford in The Undercover Man with Nina Foch, at the Paramount Theater in New York

In person: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, Howell and Bowser, Peck and Peck. Extra! Billy Eckstine

📷 PoPsie Randolph, April 21, 1949

Foch as Lisa Bouvier, dressed to the nines, with Levant as Adam Cook, dressed for some reason as a cowboy, all in white.

Nina Foch with Oscar Levant in Vincente Minnelli's An American in Paris, 1951

The two, both beautifully dressed, share a drink at the bar.

Nina Foch with designer Jean Louis at Sam Spiegel’s New Year’s Eve Party, 1948.

This was obviously *the* party to attend. One of my favourite Hollywood photos of all time, by Peter Stackpole.

Foch poses on a Paris street

Remembering Nina Foch on her birthday 🎂
📷 Gordon Parks, 1950

"She had a point of view that was so profound & so provocative that it forced you to really reassess not just your thoughts about filmmaking but your whole approach to life & relationships."
- Elaine Woo

The painter watches young girls playing hopscotch in a Barcelona square.

Joan Miró, Plaza real à Barcelone, regarde jouer les enfants
📷 Brassaï, 1955