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More Edward S. Curtis 1868-1952

 

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Edward S. Curtis, The Apache Cowboy, circa 1903

 

Edward S. Curtis, A Chief of the Desert, circa 1904

 Appears to be the same person after being promoted to chief.

Edward S. Curtis, A Jicarilla Type, circa 1904

 

 

Edward S. Curtis, A The Navajo Medicine Man, circa 1904

 

Edward S. Curtis, Vash-Ghon, Jicarilla Apache Chief, circa 1904

 

Edward S. Curtis, Navajo Child, circa 1904

 

Edward S. Curtis, Hopi Girls, circa 1900

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Edward S. Curtis 1868-1952

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all who follow this blog.

I'm posting photographs by Edward S. Curtis of native American Indians

scanned from the actual pages of Scribner's Monthly magazine in which they appeared.

My inspiration is this wonderful book about Curtis that my writer/editor daughter sent me knowing that I had some of the first published pages of the Curtis photos. It's no surprise that Egan won a National Book Award for it is a very special read. I recommend it to all aspiring photographers, whether analog or digital, and especially to freelancers everywhere who need to be reassured that hard work and talent will triumph over the discouraging word. To read a portion of The North American Indians by Edward S. Curtis click on this Gutenberg Project link.

For a great video of Tim Egan discussing his book on WELL READ with Tom Tazioli, click on this video link. 27:06.

 

 Edward S. Curtis, Sat Sa, a young Zuñi Governor, circa 1903

 

Edward S. Curtis, Apache Babe, circa 1903

 

Edward S. Curtis, Chino, circa 1903

 

Edward S. Curtis, Eski De, an Apache, circa 1903

 

Edward S. Curtis, Mosa, a child of the Mohave, circa 1903

 

Edward S. Curtis, Old Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, circa 1903

 

Edward S. Curtis, Hopi girl, of the village of Walpi, circa 1900

 

Edward S. Curtis, Hopi mother and child, circa 1900 

 

Edward S. Curtis, A Hopi snake chief, from the village of Hano, circa 1900

 

Edward S. Curtis, "A Son of the Desert," is a Navjo boy,  circa 1900
 

Edward S. Curtis, The Navajo wind doctor, Nes-Ja-Ja-Hot-Tala, circa 1904

 

Edward S. Curtis, Hos-Toe-Biga, a Navajo medicine man, circa 1904

 

Edward S. Curtis, Cañon de Chelly. A Party of Navajo, circa 1904

More photos to come.

Virna Lisi 1936-2014, R.I.P.

 Virna Lisi

This beautiful and talented lady departed this life today at the age of 78.

Virna was born Virna Pieralisi in Ancona, on the Adriatic coast of Italy on 8 November 1936. She may have been best known in the USA for her role in the film comedy about a successful cartoonist, How to Murder Your Wife. She left Hollywood to return to her native Italy and act in film more to her liking. 

 This was a 1965 comedy about a cartoonist rich enough to employ a butler.

I can assure you that very few successful cartoonists in that year were close to being that well off.  

 

Carl Fischer Virna Lisi, Rome, 1964

Virna made a much bigger impression as the model for this Esquire magazine for March 1965. The irascible and very talented art director was George Lois, who designed many of the best covers Esquire ever published. Some of them can be found at this link.  

 

Carl Fischer, Esquire cover, George Lois, art director, who probably added the thumb

(it's the kind of thing ADs do all the time).

 

Virna Lisi, photographer unknown, circa 1960s

 

Virna Lisi, photographer unknown, circa 1960s

 

Virna Lisi, photographer unknown, circa 1960s

More Nickolas Muray

Nickolas Muray, Anita Loos, 1926

Nickolas Muray, Clarence Darrow

 

Nickolas Muray, Elizabeth Taylor

 

Nickolas Muray, Gloria Swanson, 1925

 

Nickolas Muray, Greta Garbo, 1929

 

Nickolas Muray, Marion Morehouse, 1930s

 

Nickolas Muray, Rosa Covarrubias, 1935

 

Nickolas Muray, Marilyn Monroe

 

 

Nickolas Muray, 1892-1965

[See Wikipedia for a more complete bio.]

Nickolas Muray was born Miklós Mandl on 15 February 1892, in Szeged, Hungary.  He died in New York City on 2 November 1965, a Hungarian-American photographer and Olympic fencer.

Muray studied lithography in Budapest, Hungary, then took a three-year course in color photoengraving in Berlin. At the end of his course he went to work for the publisher Ullstein. In 1913, with the threat of war in Europe, he emigrated to New York City, and found work as a color printer in Brooklyn.

Muray operated a Greenwich Village home portrait studio in 1920, while working as an engraver. In the next year Harper's Bazaar asked him to do a portrait of Broadway actress Florence Reed; he was then published each month in the magazine and soon was recognized as an important portrait photographer of the celebrities of Manhatten. Vanity Fair sent Muray to London, Paris, and Berlin in 1926 to photograph celebrities. Later, he photographed Hollywood movie stars in 1929. His fashion and advertising photos appeared in Vogue, Ladies' Home Journal, and The New York Times.

Muray competed in sabre fencing events for the United States at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics representing the New York Athletic Club. He suffered a heart attack four years prior to his death while fencing at the club and saved by a fellow fencer and physician who performed open heart massage. In this very same fencing room, Muray suffered a final and fatal attack. A plaque in his honor is on display dedicated to his memory.

Nickolas Muray made over 10,000 portraits from 1920 to 1940. His 1938 portrait of Frida Kahlo, became his best known portrait. Muray and Kahlo began a ten-year love affair beginning in 1931 after his divorce from his second wife, and after Kahlo's marriage to Mexican muralist painter Diego Rivera. It outlived Muray's third marriage and Kahlo's divorce and remarriage to Rivera by one year, ending in 1941. Muray wanted to marry, but when it became apparent that Kahlo wanted Muray as a lover, not husband, Muray ended the affair and married his fourth wife, Peggy, though he and Kahlo remained good friends until her death in 1954.

After the stock market crash of 1929, Muray become a prominent commercial photographer for major national clients, though he did occasional portraits of celebrities in a diminishing market. 

Exhibit at the Piazza Ducale, Genova, Italy 16 October 2014 through the 8 February 2015

 

Nikolas Muray, Claude Monet

 

Nikolas Muray, Frida Kahlo

Nikolas Muray, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

 

Nikolas Muray, George W. Bellows, c 1920s

 

Nikolas Muray, Babe Ruth

 

Nikolas Muray, Charlie Chaplin

 

Stay tuned. We'll post more photos.