The Civil Rights Movement as seen from Malibu

Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Janice Rule, George Axelrod, Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and Phyllis Newman at Roddy McDowall's home in Malibu, 1965.

Nobel Laureate Martin Luther King, Jr.

Compare and Contrast with Jeanloup Sieff

Courrèges Fashion, Fondation Maeght, 1965 by Jeanloup Sieff

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Christmas Boy by Richard Avedon

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MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Opticians of Hotel De Ville!

My Future is Coming On : Unpublished Rolling Stones Pictures found at the Flea Market

Mick Jagger - Clearwater, FL

A collection of unpublished photographs of the Rolling Stones by the pool at different roadside hotels was discovered recently by musician Lauren White at a flea market in Saugus, CA.  The images are from 1965, the year of their first American tour. The 23 photographs are on view at Dilettante in downtown Los Angeles through October 26. Full story and more pics at LAIST.  

Keith Richards

Charlie Watts - Clearwater, FL

Bill Wyman

Brian Jones - Clearwater, FL

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

Maiden Voyage 1965

Eyewear Parade by Sammy Davis Jr.

See the Vanity Fair highlights from the work of Sammy Davis Jr. as photographer

Sammy Davis Jr. was the first African-American cover for GQ in 1967.

Peter O'Toole photographed by Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1965

Sammy Davis Jr. and Martin Luther King Jr.

Bill Cosby and Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr. reading the Talmud

Sammy Davis, Jr. photographed by Raul Vega

Two versions of the popular Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. duet, "Me & My Shadow":

The Substance of The Thing Felt : Edward Steichen

 

A portrait of photographer Edward Steichen by Yousuf Karsh (1965)

Triumph of the Egg (1921)

Loretta Young (1932)

View the Steichen photograph collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Paul and Grace Hartman (1936)

 

 Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France (1914)

Into The Wild

Gold wire-rimmed P3 glasses at Mt. Shasta long ago, 1950.

It is not supposed to be easy, that is the whole point!

Hand-tinted glass lantern slides, circa 1937, of mountaineers in camp during the ascent of Mount Logan, Yukon (above), and mountaineers and serac at the end of a glacier in the Canadian Rockies (below).

At the base of the mountain, 1948.

Approaching Ben Lui in the Highlands of Scotland, Easter, 1965.

The "Brocken Spectre" meteorological optical phenomena at Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles, 1968. The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind the observer, who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist or fog.

...I had a dream which both frightened and encouraged me. It was night in some unknown place, and I was making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment... Suddenly I had the feeling that something was coming up behind me. I looked back, and saw a gigantic black figure following me... When I awoke I realized at once that the figure was a "specter of the Brocken," my own shadow on the swirling mists, brought into being by the little light I was carrying.

- Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Oh, Just Admit It!

Juuust admit that we are energetic variants of the same ancient spiritual DNA, forever cosmically entwined like the strands of my lovely iridescent pearl necklace.

Control Agent 99

Barbara Feldon as Control Agent 99 in Get Smart

Pistis Sophia

Tanti Auguri Sophia Loren!

D.A.R.E. 1965!

Daughters of the American Revolution Eyewear!

Who R You? I Can't Explain!

Dizzy in the head and I'm feeling blue
The things you've said, well, maybe they're true
I'm gettin' funny dreams again and again
I know what it means, but …

Ronnie Spector Mash Up

Skaters | NYC 1965