devodotcom: HOLLYWOOD IS: THE VENTURERS

people make the world go round

Harper's Bazaar January 1963

Richard Avedon

Venturers

toward the unknown…

In Japan, it is believed that with the dawn of the New Year all our slates are wiped clean. The cares, dilemmas and disasters of the past magically fall away, leaving each of us in essence newborn. If this concept enchants, it takes more than enchantment to give it reality. To be a new being, one must dare to crack the hardened crust of custom – even one’s own cherished customs – and confront one’s self and the world with a sense of venture and a mind as open to wonder as a child’s. This issue is devoted to that questing sense – in fashion, in thought, and even in fantasy. The opening pages provide a brief look at a few of those free spirits in the arts and sciences who are, perhaps, the truest venturers toward the unknown. Which of their innovations will prove valid and revelatory remains to be seen. But the direction of man’s future depends in large measure on the vision, courage and applications of explorers.

Harper's Bazaar
January 1963

Dr. Frank Rosenblatt

...and part of the simulated biological nerve net that comprises the first cognitive machine: the perceptron Mark 1 - The first computer that could learn new skills by trial and error, using a neural network that simulates human thought processes.

The multiple face of the unknown, from which the knowledge, the direction and the hope of man' future will in time emerge

Jean Tinguely

Kay Harris

Jean Tinguely

"If you enter a game with the machine, then perhaps you can make a truly joyous machine - by joyous, I mean free."

William Katavolos

and some of the drawings envisioning an organic architecture that the discoveries of modern chemistry made credible

HOW TO RAISE AN EYEBROW

James Moore

How to raise an eyebrow: Reach for the Stars

Richard Avedon

Christina Paolozzi

How to raise an eyebrow: muffle your beauty

Richard Avedon

How to raise an eyebrow after five

Richard Avedon

HOLLYWOOD IS:

Hitchcock chasing Inge Balke in Jane Derby below Psycho house

Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS

Three graces bent midst the oleander in the garden of William Pereira.

Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS

Sun worship beside Mr. Herbert Cordier's hot-dog-shaped pool

Jantzen - hat by Halston

Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS

Croquet on the grounds of movie producer Samuel Goldwyn and his own club members, Mike Romanoff, Phillip Reed and Cesare Danova. Models in Harrods and Joan Leslie

Jeanloup Sieff