Dean Frey

Night shot of people in six rooms seen from the street

Mary Ellen Mark
View of the Street at Night, Falkland Road, Bombay, 1978

The actress in a black dress tied at the back. Seen from behind, & reflected in a mirror.

Mylène Demongeot by Sam Lévin, 1960

Colour photo of Dali sitting in an elaborately carved chair, with a cane in one hand

Salvador Dali by Sam Lévin

Portrait, badly out of focus

Blooper alert!

I love coming across dud photos in online photography archives, like this shot from the Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie.

Made worse (better) by the fact that this is Sam Lévin’s shot of his partner Lucienne Chevert. Two of France’s best photographers.

This looks like a still from "The Trial" by Orson Welles, but I know that's only my imagination 🤭

It seems to be from Léonard Keigel’s 1961 film Leviathan

The actress on a nighttime film set

Marie Laforêt by Sam Lévin
Charenton-le-Pont

A man in his library, reading a book. Desks & tables & parts of the floor are covered with piles of books. André Kertész Paris, 9 décembre 1963

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“And when they said "come dancing"
My sister always did.”

A long line of Trappist monks in white robes. One man in the line is wearing an ordinary suit.

André Kertész
Moines dans le couloir
L'Abbaye de la Grande Trappe, Soligny-la-Trappe, 1928

My robes? They said “One Hour Dry Cleaning” was just the name of the shop.

The ground floor of a Paris bookstore, seen reflected in a mirrored globe.

André Kertész
La librairie Loewy dans un globe, Paris, 1931

A man reads a book, halfway up a library ladder in a room filled with floor-to-ceiling books.

André Kertész
Bibliothèque, Palais de l'Institut (ancien collège des Quatre-Nations) 23 quai Conti
Paris, 1929

Album cover Electronic music With an abstract depiction of red blobs on a blue background

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Patti Smith holds John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme in a record store. Photo by Danny Clinch, 2000.

John Lennon holds the 1966 Turnabout LP Electronic Music, in a 1967 shot by an unidentified photographer.

Love music the way Patti Smith loves John Coltrane & the way John Lennon loves Carlos, Lewin-Richter, Mimaroglu & Avni.

Neil Young by Joni Mitchell.
Watercolour, pen and ink, c.1971.

Gag’s work at The Whitney a year or so ago

American Block Print Calendar 1937 This calendar is created to bring contemporary American art to the American home. The contributions range from conservative to abstract art to present the variety of contemporary American art. To enlarge the scope of the contributing artists, a small number of pictures in other media than block prints have been included. Contributing artists in order that their work appears are: Wanda Gag, George Barford, Marguerite Zorach, Biagio Pinto, Gregory Orloff, Wharton Esherick, Mary Louise Lawser, Todros Geller, Peggy Bacon, William Zorach, Stuart Davis, Willi Anders, Thomas Hart Benton, William Gropper, Carl Holty, Herbert Pullinger, Walter Dubois Richards, Grant Wood, Robert Von Neumann, Gustave Baumann, Howard N. Cook, Bernece Berkman, Edwin Tunis, Florence V. Cannon, John Steuart Curry, Alfred Bendiner, Alexander Masley, Evelynne Mess, Julian Wehr, Howard Thomas, Angelo Raphael Pinto, Emil Ganso, Gerhard Bakker, Clare Eichbaum Brehme, John F. Stenvall, Grace Arnold-Albee, Ernest Fiene, Jean Charlot, Birger Sandzen, Lowell M. Lee, Karl Knaths, Boris Artzybasheff, Julius J. Lankes, Thomas W. Nason, Rockwell Kent, Kevin B. O'Callahan, Fritzi Brod, Mabel Dwight, Nicolai Cikovsky, Helmut Summ, Fiske Boyd, Elmer Young, and Frank Hartley Anderson.

Spinning Wheel - Woodcut by Wanda Gág January 1937 Friday 1 - Saturday 2

American Block Print Calendar 1937 featured a print for every week of the year by 53 American artists. The very first page was by Wanda Gág.

Smithsonian Archive of American Art

I've added a list of all 53 artists in the Alt Text.

This was Rockwell Kent's copy; his signature is on the cover.

Lithograph of a house in the country, surrounded by burgeoning spring growth.

Wanda Gág
Spring (Spring in the Garden), 1927
lithograph on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum

The bookseller completely surrounded by piles & piles of books

The Weyhe Gallery & Bookstore was owned by Erhard Weyhe, probably best known today for this wonderful 1948 portrait by Arnold Newman.

The Checkerboard Published on occasion by The Weyhe Gallery Gág Number This number of Checkerboard is devoted to Wanda Gág. Ever since her show at the Weyhe Gallery in 1926, this artist's reputation has been growing steadily, as one of the most original and powerful of the younger group of American artists.

Two facing pages from the Checkerboard Wanda Gág Number. With a lithograph by the artist: "Gág. Cats at the Window".

The Wanda Gág number of The Checkerboard, from the Weyhe Gallery & Bookstore, 1930.

Greetings from the House of Weyhe, 1928 A drawing of people browsing books & looking at art works

Each year, the Weyhe Gallery & Bookstore commissioned a holiday greeting card from one of its artists. In this card by Mabel Dwight, from 1928, you can see Weyhe himself showing off a book to a client. Dwight includes two colleagues, Peggy Bacon & Wanda Gág, & Gallery Director Carl Zigrosser.

Book cover Brightly coloured picture of a man carrying cats in his arms, with more following him, & ahead of him, on a hilly landscape.

Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats, published in 1928. The oldest American picture book still in print.

Self-portrait in charcoal with white highlights

Remembering Wanda Gág on her birthday 🎂
🎨 Self-portrait, 1915

"There is, to me, no such thing as an empty place in the universe, and if Nature abhors a vacuum, so do I — and I am just as eager as nature to fill a vacuum with something — if with nothing else, at least with a tiny rhythm of its own."

The final line delivered by Eddie O'Brien was just as good "He finally got to the top of the world. And it blew right up in his face."

Disappointed to see the results of my "sex chicks" Google search.

Gould reads a score by Bach as his producer Howard Scott looks on.

"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven & Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."
- Douglas Adams

📷 Glenn Gould by Gordon Parks

Gilmour onstage with his guitar

David Gilmour performs at Douglas Adams: The Party, on what would have been Adams' 60th birthday, March 11, 2012
📷 Dave M. Benett

Black & white portrait of Adams, his hand to his face.

Douglas Adams by Steve Pyke, 1994

"He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left."
- an Adams quote from The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Adams sits smiling at a grand piano, with a variety of animals on him.

Douglas Adams by Ian Cook, 1991

With a lizard, tarantula spider, horned lizard & two small pythons.