I realized he wasn’t Tom Joad or Clarence Darrow or young Abe Lincoln or the character in “The Ox-Bow Incident”, but that he had chosen to do them because he believed in those values. I think he hoped some of it would rub off - and it did.
Jane Fonda
Erich von Stroheim on the set of “Greed”
George Cukor and Katharine Hepburn on the set of Little Women, 1933
A young woman plays a gramophone in an air raid shelter in north London during 1940
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934
James Dean on the set of Rebel Without a Cause, 1955
(photographed by Bob Willoughby)
From Polish photographer Marcin Ryczek comes this, as Colossal aptly puts it, “once-in-a-lifetime photograph of a man feeding swans and ducks from a snowy river bank in Krakow.”
Doris Day on the set of Calamity Jane, 1953
Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologne - L’Éternel Retour (1943).
Eugène Atget: Organ-grinder, 1898-99
This photograph was purchased from Atget in the 1920s by Maurice Utrillo, the painter of the streets of Montmartre. Although the image was recently printed, the negative had been made decades earlier, as part of a series of photographs devoted to the rapidly vanishing street trades, or petits métiers, of Paris. Posed in the street with the attributes of their trades, the knife-sharpener, breadboy, and fishwife were portrayed as stock characters acting generic roles. This image, the masterpiece in the series, broke all the rules. Street musicians cut close to Atget’s bone; these are not types but vividly portrayed individuals, and their engaging performance is to the pose as the hurdy-gurdy’s music is to silence.
Peter Lorre in M, 1931
