“She kept ‘Ulysses’ in her car and had been reading it for a long time. She said she loved the sound of it and would read it aloud to herself to try to make sense of it–but she found it hard going. She couldn’t read it consecutively. When we stopped at a local playground to photograph she got out the book and started to read while I loaded the film. So, of course, I photographed her.”
—Eve Arnold.
Eva and Lyena on the balcony, 1934
“Mist” 1961 Oil on canvas 72 x 48 in (182.9 x 121.9 cm) Guggenheim, NY
Alley of Trees, Damyang, Jeollanamdo, South Korea, 2012
Circus, Budapest, 1920
Via della Lungarni, Trastevere, Rome, 1953
—Sophia Loren
Dove One, 1989
oil on linen; 16 x 20 in.
Montmartre, Paris, 1948
Small Butterfly and Sunflower c.1900
Cliff and Clouds, Etretat, Haute-Normandie, France, 2000
Written by: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
“A Bigger Splash”
1967
—Katherine Hepburn
Ballerinas, 1884
Diving Boards and Cruise Ship, Nice, France, 1997
Woman with Black Hat
1909; Vienna, Austria
oil, canvas
Looking at Michael Kenna’s “Cliff and Clouds,” I think of Churchill’s “The Gathering Storm.”
I was curious regarding the one of “Women of the Lemba Jewish community” and found this: “The Lemba emblem is the Star of David, with an elephant at its centre. The elephant signifies the clan’s membership to the Venda nation, and it’s their symbol of might, peace and intellect.”
From what I read, there is nothing definitive about their ancestry, although there is some genetic linkage to other Jewish Groups. Evidently, their religious practices are somewhat syncretistic.
Ariel has a nice smile! I think the best photos, like the one of MM, are spontaneous. I’ll take these kind over Richard Avedon any day. These are truly a “slice of time”.
You have a photographer’s eye, Robert. You can find something that most consider mundane – like the lipstick display – and make it interesting.
Thanks so much for the kind words about my snapshots.
That Hockney painting is a neat surprise. Scrolling down, at first it looks like a very geometric design, somewhat like Rietveld’s structures. Then all of a sudden there is the randomness of that big splash. Fun contrast, nicely executed.
Hockney is a wonderful artist.
Monroe, Hepburn and Ariel… enough said.
Thank you, Robert!
You’re welcome.