Esquerita A.K.A. Eskew Reeder on the Rockabilly Jukebox

ESQUERITA : Also known as The Magnificent Malochi, S.Q. Reeder, and The Voola...

The Survival of James Baldwin : Notes of an Artist

James Baldwin, 1965, Montgomery, Alabama

One writes out of one thing only — one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

-James Baldwin, "Autobiographical Notes", 1952

James Baldwin and Marlon Brando at the Lincoln Memorial, 1965

James Baldwin, 1963

The Bard of Bordeaux

Afternoon in Exeter, 1963.  Courtesy of ga2114

Plaster of Paris

Sixties Parisian street scene, 1963.

Kennedy Summer Vacation 1963

The dogs are Clipper (standing), Charlie (with Caroline), Wolf (reclining), Shannon (with John Jr.), and two of Pushinka's puppies (with Mrs. Kennedy).

Get Her to the Greek | Scopitone vs. Nana Mouskouri 1963

Nana Mouskouri sings To fegari ine kokino for the 16mm Scopitone film of 1963.

Kurosawa in Dope Alley | 1963

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
-Akira Kurosawa

The Decline of the West | Gun Girl, 1963

Gun girl glasses, 1963

Nude Chess in Pasadena | Marcel Duchamp, 1963

Photograph of Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz posing for the photographer Julian Wasser during the Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art (now the Norton Simon), 1963. His major work, The Large Glass, or The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23), a construction of wire and painted foil fitted between plates of transparent glass, is visible in the background.

In 1912, Duchamp painted his famous Nude Descending A Staircase, which caused a scandal at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City. Duchamp developed a type of symbolic painting in which the image depicted successive movements of a single body, closely resembling the multiple exposure photography.

Stroboscopic study of a nude descending staircase, 1942. By the time this photograph was taken, Duchamp had stopped painting for 20 years and devoted himself to the game of chess.

The First 3-D Television | Hugo Gernsback in HD

TV Glasses by Inventor Hugo Gernsback, 1963

Hugo Gernsback was an Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, first published in 1926. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction".

Vlad to Be Alive | Ashkenazy in 1963

Russian Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy in Britain, 1963.

Smokey & The Miracles at the Apollo | You Got A Real Tight Hold on Me

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: You Really Got a Hold on Me + Bring it on Home to Me
Apollo Theatre, 1963

Beatniks on the Banks | Paris, 1963

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

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? | T.S. Eliot by Cecil Beaton

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-T.S. Eliot

Une Femme | Anouk Aimee, 1963

Anouk Aimee in Fellini's 8 1/2, 1963

Portrait of the Artist | Richard Avedon, 1963

Richard Avedon photographed by Alfred Eisenstadt, 1963

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

-Richard Avedon

RICHARD AVEDON: Photographs 1946-2004 at SFMOMA

Dark Glasses of 1963 | Splashing

Dark Glasses of 1963 | Smoking

Photographed by Yale Joel.

Dark Glasses of 1963 | Roundabout

Photographed by Yale Joel.

Dark Glasses of 1963 | Opera Glasses at the Ocean

Photographed by Yale Joel.