Uncredited Photographer     Writer Isaac babel     c.1920

“No bullet can pierce the heart with such force as a period put at just the right place.”  Isaac Babel, “Guy de Maupassant”  1922

Man Ray Writer/Director Luis Buñuel, Paris 1929

"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed." Luis Buñuel

MC5 Kick Out the Jams, Live in Detroit 1970

(By the way, the two guitarists are Wayne Kramer and Fred Sonic Smith, later the husband of Patti Smith).

Wayne Kramer - 1948-2024 - Ave atque Vale

Max Waldman John Cage, New York City Undated

"I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' I said, 'Well then, I'll beat my head against that wall.' I quite literally began hitting things, and developed a music of percussion that involved noises." John Cage, 1982

Roman Visniac Marc Chagall, New York City 1941

"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep." Marc Chagall

Alan Porter Saul Leiter and Soames Bantry, New York City 1978

"When I consider all the beautiful things that have been done, my own achievements are rather minor. I'm not carried away by the greatness of Mr. Leiter." Saul Leiter

Jeanloup Sieff Director Claude Chabrol, Paris 1959

"I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing." Claude Chabrol

Vincent van Gogh ~ Roses, 1890

Gjon Mili

Alfred Hitchcock

1942

Gjon Mili Nude Descending Staircase

Born in 1904 in Albania, Mili moved to America in 1923. He trained as an engineer and was self-taught in photography. He is most famous for his images that captured Picasso drawing with light.

Mili attended MIT shortly after he moved to America, where worked with Professor Harold Edgerton utilizing electronic flash to refine strobe photography. Since the late 1930s, he used a rapid-firing sequence technique in his photography, which allowed him to catch multiple images in a single frame. His photographs of dance, athletics, and musical and theatrical performances were then able to show the graceful flow of movement too rapid for the naked eye to distinguish. In 1939, Mili became a freelance photographer working for LIFE.

El baterista de jazz Gene Krupa, Gjon Mili’s studio, 1941.

📷 Gjon Mili.

Jam session, 1943: James P. Johnson on piano with Wilbur de Paris on trombone.

Photo: Gjon Mili via the Howard Greenberg Gallery

Mary Lou Williams by Gjon Mili

Gjon Mili, New York, Photo by Lisette Model, c. 1945

Student nurses lining the railings of a stairwell at Roosevelt hospital. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt - The LIFE Picture Collection.)

Loretta Young

Greta Garbo