These shots, taken on July 8, 1960, outside Fox Studios in New York after Monroe had completed costume and hair tests for her film "The … [Read more...]
RIP The Contact Sheet: Legendary Stars In Mutiples
RIP. The contact sheet is dead. I spent a LOT of time in my life looking at these. As a former Art Director, I got to look at them, good ones, more than most people, I guess – from Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber, Duane Michaels, Irving Penn. But now, with digital photography, they … [Read more...]
Clift Notes
At top, a beautiful Montgomery Clift, 27, in his film debut, Howard Hawks' 1948 Red River; below, an only slightly less beautiful Clift in one of his last movies, John Huston's 1961 The Misfits. … [Read more...]