—Deborah Kerr
The Stork and Four Frogs
circa 1889
Dimensions: Height: 159.5 cm (62.8 in.), Width: 163.5 cm (64.37 in.)
Distemper on fine canvas (three paneled screen)
Penny-farthing for their thoughts, from A Day on the River, 1941
Brown Street, Belfast, April 2017; You can purchase Rick’s photo books here.
Lisa Fonssagrives hands, 1941
Carmen Miranda, 1947 interview
The Garden (Le jardin), 1894
Marbeled and stained glass, 15 1/2 x 23 5/8 in., The Phillips Collection
Crowd looking at new model car during automobile exhibit. Paris 1948
Truck 7492
New Jersey, 2019
“Do you know what film is? The film is an infernal machine. Once it is ignited and set in motion, it revolves with an enormous dynamism. It cannot pause. It cannot retract anything. It cannot wait for you to understand it. It cannot explain itself. It simply ripens to its inevitable explosion. This explosion we have to prepare, like anarchists with the utmost ingenuity and malice.”
—Prater Violet, by Christopher Isherwood
Passerby (La Passante) (1897)
Oil on cardboard, 7 7/8 x 11 in., The Phillips Collection
Tow path, Blackburn, Lancashire, 1984
Photo by: Steve Cohn Photography www.stevecohnphotography.com (310) 277-2054 © 2019
Hollywood Hardware is the kind of store where someone will spend 15 minutes with you to find that metric bolt you need. For a sale less than $1. The Sacramento metro area had a handful of these stores; we are down to 2 now around town.
I try to patronize them whenever I can over the big box stores.
Until they put up that sign, I thought they were just named after…..Hollywood.
They are pretty much the same since 1948.
Beautiful photos by you Robert and Rick!
And a beautiful and succinct description of the film medium by Prater Violet.
I also love hardware stores. When I was a boy in Chicago, my father used to spend time in Matushek’s Hardware store that literally stocked everything, including guns. My father bought my first shotgun there, an Ithaca 20 gauge. There used to be a nice big one in Pasadena that stocked fishing gear including fly tying equipment and flies.
Just for fun – that photo with the Isherwood quotation is of actor-director Frank Borzage (with his hand on the tripod) and cinematographer L. Guy Wilky shooting a scene for the 1916 western “Land o’ Lizards,” made by the American Film Company in Santa Barbara.
Not that I knew that off the top of my head, but I knew I had seen that picture before and went scurrying through my books. It’s from Robert S. Birchard’s “Silent-Era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara.”
Christopher:
Thanks so much for the ID. Borzage was a very fine director with a long and distinguished career.
That trench watch is awesome. I love the numerals and the teardrop design!
Rick, how do you get such a pristine-looking photo?
Sometimes things just look like that. I didn’t think Belfast would look that tidy, either.