Showing posts with label 1951. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1951. Show all posts

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29 October 2009

The Wild Beast | Raoul Dufy, 1951





French Fauvist Raoul Dufy, 1951.
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

27 August 2009

Greta Garbo's Eyes by Cecil Beaton

July 1946 Edition of VOGUE magazine featuring the first published photo shoot of Greta Garbo by Cecil Beaton.

One day in spring 1946, Greta Garbo asked Cecil Beaton if he could make her passport photograph. Beaton agreed and in the end the shot a full session. With her permission, he sent the pictures to Alexander Liberman, the art director at Vogue. Liberman “could hardly believe his eyes,” Beaton recalled. “Here was a precious windfall of a dozen different pictures of someone who for ten years had resolutely refused to be photographed.”

Sketch of Garbo's Eyes by Cecil Beaton from his 1937 Scrapbook

Garbo & Beaton in London, 1951

...as for her eyes, there are never been such before, in expression so quizzical, compassionate and languorous, so deepset and of such unforgettable blue; they have large, dark irises, and boast lashes so long that it is impossible to believe that they are real ... -Cecil Beaton

28 May 2009

Soda Jerk School | 1951

Soda jerk costume, but make it fashion. 🍩 For National Ice Cream Month, get the scoop on the history of the Smithsonian’s ice cream parlor at ​​National Museum of American History