Three Men Holding Hands | Michael Caine + Sidney Lumet + Treat Williams

Sidney Lumet, Michael Caine and Treat Williams share a masculine embrace in the early 80s.

Nouveaux Réalistes | Martial Raysse, 1964

Artist, Martial Raysse, assembling neon picture.

In October 1960, Martial Raysse, together with Arman, Yves Klein, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé and the art critic and philosopher Pierre Restany founded the group Nouveaux Réalistes. The group was later joined by Cesar, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Saint Phalle and Christo.

The Nouveaux Réalistes defined themselves as bearing in common a "new perspective approaches of reality". Their work was an attempt at reassessing the concept of art and the artist in the context of a 20th Century consumer society by reasserting the humanistic ideals in the face of industrial expansion.

Bowie Head to Toe | 1987

HDV salutes David Bowie's ponytail...

David Bowie meets the press, 1987

Blind Man's Bluff | Ray Charles Chess Game, 1966

Ray Charles playing chess on a board with special niches (1966).

Take Five | Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1954

Multiple exposure of the Dave Brubeck Quartet: Dave Brubeck on piano encircled by band members Paul Desmond, Joe Dodge and Bob Bates (1954).

Robocop v.s. Warhol _ 1984

The Odd Couple: Peter Weller and Andy Warhol

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
-Andy Warhol

Beatniks on the Banks | Paris, 1963

Parisian beatniks hanging out on bank of the Seine River, Paris 1963.

Someone Already Did It | Windshield WIper Eyeglasses

HDV salutes windshield wiper glasses and the men who wore them...

Wintour Weather is Almost Here | Anna in Chanel

I'm an ice queen, I’m the Sun King, I’m an alien fleeing from District 9 and I’m a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.
-Anna Wintour

Double Your Fun | Ertegun & Lazar, 1985

Record executive Ahmet Ertegun and agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar.

Mutual Weirdness | Hines & Hines, 1991

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

-Gregory Hines

What Goes Around Comes Around | 1930

Crazy for Swayze | RIP

Just a fool to believe...

Patrick Swayze 1952-2009

George Stevens Directing | 1958

Film director George Stevens holding loupe up to his sunglasses (in which a reflection of actors at a table can be seen) during production of his film, "The Diary of Anne Frank".

Actress Millie Perkins getting dressed with help of her family for the premiere of movie.

Ed Wynn, Millie Perkins and Shelly Winters during N.Y. premiere of "Diary of Anne Frank".

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
-Anne Frank

Hollywood Street Scene with Saddle Shoes | 1936

A beautiful girl in white sunglasses and saddle shoes walks alone down Hollywood Boulevard in 1936. Note that the sidewalk at this time does not yet carry the trademark Walk of Fame stars. HDV research crew believes that this shot was taken a few blocks west of Hollywood & Highland. In three years, WW II would begin.

Steppin' Out | Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1980

Jackie O limousine arrival in 1980.

Jackie O & Philip Johnson, 1983

Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

White Blazer in the Sunshine | Happy Labor Day from Hotel De Ville

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
-Sylvia Plath

What a Difference a Day Makes | Hugh Hefner & Doris with Puppy

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
-Doris Day

Doris Day as Patricia Fowler, a spy who collects the secrets of the cosmetics industry in CAPRICE...

Blank Frank | Brian Eno, 1974

Blank frank is the messenger of your doom and your destruction
Yes, he is the one who will set you up as nothing
And he is one who will look at you sideways
His particular skill is leaving bombs in peoples driveways.

Blank frank has a memory thats as cold as an iceberg
The only time he speaks is in incomprehensible proverbs
Blank frank is the siren, hes the air-raid, hes the crater
Hes on the menu, on the table, hes the knife and hes the waiter

"Blank Frank"
Here Come the Warm Jets
Brian Eno, 1974

When She Was Fab | Mia Farrow, 1967

Mia Farrow, 1967

Party Pooper | Herbert Stempel and The Quiz Show Scandals

Herbert Stempel is an American teacher who was famous for his celebrity as a television game show contestant—and for helping to expose what became known as the quiz show scandals after his long run as champion on the 1950s show Twenty One was ended by Columbia University teacher and literary scion Charles Van Doren.

After a series of 21-21 ties lasting several weeks in 1958, Van Doren defeated Stempel and went on to become the single most popular contestant in the quiz show's early history. Stempel wanted to play it straight against his opponent and was refused, but was promised a job in television if he would finish the performance they had started.

Stempel told the U.S. House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that, on the day he was to lose to Van Doren, he was strong-armed into answering incorrectly a question about the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1955: Marty, one of his favorite films. The incorrect answer he was forced to give was On the Waterfront—which won the same Oscar for the year before.

Stempel drew the evening's biggest laugh when he was asked the fate of four of Henry VIII's wives and answered, "They all died," possibly to break the tension under which both men laboured thanks to the fix. Then Stempel answered the question correctly, but when offered their standard opportunity to stop the game, Van Doren stopped it and became the new Twenty One champion.


Van Doren was forced out of Columbia University, and made a life as an editor for the Encyclopedia Britannica and for Praeger Books, before becoming a late-life adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut. Stempel finished putting himself through college on the G.I. Bill and became a teacher himself, teaching social studies in the New York school system.