
—Grace Kelly

San-Cristobál
1976

![Janina Green (Essen, Germany born 1944; Australia from 1949) Untitled [Washing in basket] 1988 Gelatin silver photograph, photo oils National Gallery of Australia, Canberra](http://www.seraphicpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/janina-green-untitled-1988-2-web.jpg)
Untitled [Washing in basket]
1988
Gelatin silver photograph, photo oils
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Philomene
1907



—Marilyn Monroe

Jacob Wrestling the Angel
Vision after the sermon
oil on canvas (73 × 92 cm) — 1888
Museum National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Fire Masks, London, England
1941

Propeller (Air Pavilion)
1937



—Patty Duke, (1946-2016) RIP

Ford Mustang Fastback 1966
2016
From the series Carmania
Digital photograph



Court shoes
1925



Father Taking His Son to the First Day of Cheder
1937-1938
Silver gelatin print

Photo by: Steve Cohn
www.stevecohnphotography.com
© 2016
“I never really felt pretty, bright or socially adept.”
She was one heck of an actress, then.
Regarding Grace Kelly and her comment: Insecurity, coupled with the illusion of confidence, are essential ingredients to screen success.
Comments related to various points of this post:
1) When I saw the painting by Delaunay, I thought it was by Gauguin, having never heard of the first painter. Then, two photos down, there he is. Maybe it was her homage to him? 2) Boy, could I post a “big hair” graduation photo of mine from 1966. 3) I could also post a Mustang photo from Facebook, of my son posed yesterdayin front of his classic Mustang. 4) As usual, the photo that touches me the most is the photo of the grandchildren, my own grand nephews and nieces, who are growing up far away from me, as I am in Israel. 5) All you guys who had a crush on me in school and never told me, I’m waiting to hear from you.
That always surprised me to read of stars who – to the world – are beautiful or handsome and inwardly they believe that they are ugly.
Like Norma Jean’s fixation with her nostrils. Since you mentioned her fixation with them now every time I see a poster of her I look at her nostrils. Personally they look fine to me.
I think she did live as 2 people – it was Norma Jean who tormented her.
Must be, for all the outward signs of “having it all” – a rather sad existence.
You are one of the few people I know who had a crush on a girl from the earliest school years and got to marry her.
In fact, the only person I know.
Remembering the story from Karen’s perspective and asking you years later “why didn’t you say something” ? It always has surprised me that when a young boy is acting goofy around a girl they never seem to pick up on it.
Or rarely. And they are supposed to be “the sensitive gender”.
I often wonder what happened to this girl I liked – her family moved from town after 7th grade and it is as if, even in this internet search-engine era, she disappeared from the face of the earth. Then I think of Paul Simon’s song from the 60s, Kodachrome, and how everything looks better in black and white.
There were several over my early years but it was not meant to be.
Sometimes it is better to remember things as they were.
I think you were lucky!
Again, beautiful.
Lee Miller was a fabulous photographer. These women were actually sitting on the steps of Lee Miller’s air raid shelter. My favorite photo of Miller is the one of her in Hitler’s bathtub after she visited Dachau.
I love the rocker’s shadow on the clapboard in the “American Rural Baroque”.
I like some of Sonia Delaunay’s later works — Court Shoes and Propeller — but Philomene and several like it don’t move me. They were paintings of people and most were done in the 1905-1910 range. I like the abstracts she did after that. I just read her bio on ArtBlart.com:
Karen’s photo reminds me of one of my sister in early high school. White blouse with that flip hairdo. I think I was sporting a crew cut back then…
Have a wonderful Sabbath!
If interested, read more about Lee Miller at http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/09/female-wwii-photographer-lee-miller, which includes the bathtub photo, among others.