Tuesday, November 30, 2010

DECEMBER 1950

HARPER'S BAZAAR DECEMBER 1950
TED CASTLE


DOVIMA
A CHRISTMAS BALL DRESS BY DIOR
EKTACHROME BY RICHARD AVEDON



ANIMAL MAGNETISM

CROWN SABLE CAPE - MAXIMILIAN
THE SKINS OF SOMALI LEOPARDS - BERNHAM-STEIN

RICHARD AVEDON


LORD CARNEGIE COMES OF AGE

THE EARL OF SOUTHESK AND SON, LORD CARNEGIE
KINAIRD CASTLE
TONI FRISSELL


FUR AND FINE FEATHERS
JEAN SIMMONS


  MAINBOCHER 



1950
The Credit Card is introduced.   In 1949, Frank X. McNamara thought of a way for customers to have just one credit card that they could use at multiple stores. McNamara discussed the idea with two colleagues and the three pooled some money and started a new company in 1950 which they called the Diners Club.

The first Diners Club credit cards were given out in 1950 to 200 people  and accepted by 14 restaurants in New York. The concept of the card grew and by the end of 1950, 20,000 people were using the Diners Club credit card. The Diners Club credit card is considered the first modern credit card.

Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion

James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial

Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart

Academy Award for Best Original Song - “Mona Lisa” the theme song to the drama “Captain Carey, U.S.A.” sung by Nat King Cole


MONA LISA - NAT KING COLE  (open in new tab)




       




                                              






dovima admin girl @devodotcom



FROM THE ARCHIVE
devodotcom posts on Dovima

Avedon and Dovima in Paris          1.6.12
Spot the Difference                 1.6.12
In Praise of Ernst Beadle           9.8.11
Dovima – Mid-Century Supremodel     7.3.11
December 1950                     11.30.10
Dovima With Elephants, Evening…   11.25.10



                                       

Monday, November 29, 2010

AL DI LA


BEYOND


HARPER'S BAZAAR DECEMBER 1962
THE ZEST OF IMPERFECTION
RICHARD AVEDON

Emilio Pericoli, the Italian crooner sings “Al di Là”, in the popular 1962 film Rome Adventure, starring Trot Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, and Angie Dickinson. The hit record  reaches number six on Billboard’s 1962 pop chart - number three on the easy-listening chart.



TRAFFIC-STOPPER
CAMILLA SPARV

Camilla Sparv was a busy model prior to embarking on a career in films. Soon after this photograph, she would become the second wife of producer Robert Evans. In 1967 She she was awarded the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer (female).



FUTURIST CHIC


STREAKS OF CHIC
FRANCESCO SCAVULLO

          IN LINE FOR SPRING 

Names and faces worth remembering: STOP, STUDY AND APPLAUD
              WARHOL


                                        OPEN SEASON: RESORT SANDALS 1962
HARPERS BAZAAR DECEMBER 1962
JAMES MOORE



EMERIC PARTOS -  BERGDORF'S

 

Saturday, November 27, 2010

A LOVING KIND OF CHRISTMAS

HARPERS BAZAAR DECEMBER 1966
FRANCESCO SCAVULLO



Meet a man who never met a woman he didn't love



MICHAEL CAINE
HARPER'S BAZARR DECEMBER 1966
HIRO


33 year-old Michael Caine stars in the original Paramount production of Alfie as playboy Alfie Elkins, a character re-created by Jude Law in 2004.

The film’s jazz score was created by Sonny Rollins.  The Oscar-nominated title song was written by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David. Although the song is generally known as a Dionne Warwick/Bacharach/David collaboration, the original version of the song featured British pop singer, Cilla Black, and the version used in the film itself was produced by Sonny Bono and sung by Cher.





HIRO

MAINBOCHER
NEAL BARR
STEPHANIE PETRILLO
A DANCER IN A NUTCRACKER WORLD
SAUL LEITER

EMERIC PARTOS

JACK BENNY
How To Avoid Giving Christmas Gifts by Jack Benny


DAVID EVINS
HIRO

Thursday, November 25, 2010

"Dovima With Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, France, 1955"

Harper’s Bazaar

September, 1955

The American Openings

The Paris Openings

This iconic issue includes now famous Richard Avedon images of fifties top model Dovima taken in Paris, 1955. Avedon photographed Dovima on fourteen fashion pages for, editor-in-chief, Carmel Snow’s Paris Report.

see devodotcom July 3, 2011  Dovima Mid-Century Supermodel for more on this fashion shoot.


RICHARD AVEDON
DOVIMA WITH ELEPHANTS

Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, France, 1955

“Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, France, 1955” was an image Avedon himself used for many years in his personal portfolio as a fashion photographer. The gown was designed by Dior apprentice, Yves Saint Laurent, a gifted young Algeria-born designer who joined Christian Dior's design team in 1955, as a star graduate of the Chambre Syndicate Fashion School.


The Now Iconic Photograph at Auction:
At auction on October 10, 2005, a high of $180,000 was realized at Christies 20th Century Photographs The Elfering Collection. In April, 2008, the image sold for $43,000 at Christie’s auction of “Photographs From The Collection Of Gert Elfering” - and at a future Christies auction, Christies Photographs, on March 31, 2009 the same image sold for $116,500. Less than two-years later, in November 2010, the image would fetch an astounding $1,148, 910 from fashion's House of Dior.  The winning bid at Christie's Paris more than doubled the previous Avedon auction record of $457,000 paid for "Marilyn Monroe, May 6, 1957, New York City," at Sotheby's "The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs."















About German Art Collector Gert Elfering - German collector Gert Elfering is the founder of the Camera Work Gallery in Berlin. A photographer himself, he accrued the definitive collection of beauty, fashion, and high-style editorial photography creating a masterful assemblage of great post-war works. Christie’s has offered, at past auctions, many of the masterpieces from his extensive collection.



On June 30, 2010, Christies Paris will auction more works from Gert Elfering’s collection.“Photographies de Jeanloup Sieff, Collection Gert Elfering” will hold 67 lots of Jeanloup Sieff’s photographs from 1933-2000. Some of the featured photographs graced the pages of Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. Other images chronicle personalities important to fashion history. Jane Birkin, Paris, 1968 – is an image of perfection in beauty while Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 1971, offers a rare and intimate glimpse of the great couturier. Yves Saint Laurent, then fashion assistant to Christian Dior, designed the column gown seen in the iconic fashion photograph, “Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, France, 1955”


Returning to the Harper’s Bazaar issue for September, 1955; it is a tribute to the sharp design eye of art director Alexey Brodovitch, whose twenty-five years at Harper’s Bazaar make him a key figure in editorial design history. Timeless in its style, his touch is evident throughout – and his mentorship to younger, newer talents appears through the many pages of Richard Avedon fashion photographs and illustrations by Andy Warhol – whose work is on five editorial pages.




Richard Avedon photographs “The Quinquagenarians”, portraits of Fred Astaire, James Cagney, Henry Fonda and Cary Grant – an early compilation from  his “Richard Avedon Observations” portfolios that were included works in many later Harper's Bazaar magazines.



Also photographed by Avedon, is the great Indian dancer Shanta Rao, who composes her dance for his camera’s eye.




The issue swells with the top models of the fifties. Dovima; Jean Patchett; Sunny Harnett; Anne St. Marie; Suzy Parker – all are featured or represented in the classic advertising that supports this fall volume.

Photographs by Richard Avedon; Cecil Beaton; Brassai; Lillian Bassman; Gleb Derujinsky; Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Tom Palumbo; Frances Pellegrini; Francesco Scavullo; Statler and Bob Willoughby.

More photographs and contents may be viewed at ebay store devocanada





dovima admin girl @ devodotcom


FROM THE ARCHIVE
devodotcom posts on Dovima

Avedon and Dovima in Paris          1.6.12
Spot the Difference                 1.6.12
In Praise of Ernst Beadle           9.8.11
Dovima – Mid-Century Supremodel     7.3.11
December 1950                     11.30.10
Dovima With Elephants, Evening…   11.25.10


Saturday, November 6, 2010

STEVE MCQUEEN "KING OF COOL"

STEVE McQUEEN
HARPER'S BAZAAR FEBRUARY 1965
RICHARD AVEDON
 “I’m not sure if I’m an actor who races or a racer who acts”


Steve McQueen films released in 1965


Baby the Rain Must Fall

Released January 15, 1965 -   McQueen plays Henry Thomas , an irresponsible rockabilly- guitar playing singer, recently released from prison after serving time for stabbing a man during a drunken brawl. He costars with Lee Remick. The end of the film finds him back in prison.

The title song, composed by Elmer Bernstein with lyrics by Ernie Sheldon, was performed by Glen Yarbrough during the opening credits. Yarborough's recording reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The May, 1965 video below, highlights some 1965 fashion in a bizarre backdrop for Glenn Yarborough's performance.

Baby The Rain Must Fall - Glen Yarborough (open in new tab)

The Cincinnati Kid

Released October 15, 1965 - McQueen plays Eric "The Kid" Stoner, a young poker player seeking to establish his reputation as the best player out there. This leads him to challenge Lancey "The Man" Howard (Edward G. Robinson), an older player widely considered to be the best. Howard played by The duo face-off in a climactic final poker hand . Adapted from a novel by Richard Jessup, the script was the work of Ring Lardner, Jr., and Terry Southern. Director Norman Jewison, replaced original director Sam Peckinpah soon after filming began.

Supporting cast -  Tuesday Weld; Ann-Margret, Joan Blondell, Karl Malden, Rip Torn, Cab Calloway, Jack Weston

Steve McQueen in the News Today



June 2010 Robert Downey Jr. and wife Susan Downey have named their Warner Bros-based production company Team Downey. For their first producing project, the Downeys have come aboard Yucatan, a heist film originally crafted by Steve McQueen as a star vehicle for himself.

September 2010 The Fifth Avenue Sunglass Hut in New York City hosted a special Persol/Steve McQueen launch party.

November 2010 Tommy Hilfiger announces “Tommy’s Global Celebration of American Style”, featuring a 25 piece, limited edition capsule collection known as The ICON Collection, which updates Tommy’s all time favorite garments inspired by his personal idols such as Grace Kelly, Steve McQueen, Deborah Harry and others.






 “Racing is life…everything before and after is just waiting”




STEVE MCQUEEN & JEAN SHRIMPTON
HARPERS BAZAAR FEBRUARY 1965
RICHARD AVEDON


STEVE MCQUEEN R.I.P.





Tuesday, November 2, 2010