Gloria Vanderbilt
Showing posts with label Harper's Bazaar November 1961. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harper's Bazaar November 1961. Show all posts
Sunday, August 14, 2011
60'S - EVENINGS TO DIE FOR
The Enchanting Vamps
Betty Carol
Francesco Scavullo
Kasper
Francesco Scavullo
Reid and Reid
Francesco Scavullo
Mr. Mort
Francesco Scavullo
The Touch of Fur
Irene
Melvin Sokolsky
China Machado in Scassi
Melvin Sokolsky
Talmack, Lilly Dache and Chinchilla from David Furs
Saul Leiter
Teal Traina
Saul Leiter
Jet Black Satin by Leslie Morris
Saul Leiter
Fantasy from Balenciaga
Tom Kublin
Fantasy from Balenciaga
Tom Kublin
Sophie
Saul Leiter
Sophia Loren
Van Cleef & Arpels
Hat by Adolfo of Emme
Richard Avedon
Harper's Bazaar November 1961
Saturday, October 16, 2010
THE MAGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF DIANE ARBUS - THE FULL CIRCLE
WILLIAM MACK
DIANE ARBUS
THE FULL CIRCLE WHO IS IT THAT CAN TELL ME WHO I AM? - SHAKESPEARE
William Mack is known as the Sage of the Wilderness, the (Abominale) Snowman, Santa Claus, El- Dorado, Rasputin, Daniel Boone, Garabadi. Mr. Mack lives on Third Avenue in a room which measures about 7 by 8 feet, with nine umbrellas, a cowbell, twenty rings, 5 hammers, 38 cigar butts in a bowl, 11 bracelets, 4 watches, 3 earrings, 6 necklaces, 35 empty bottles, a Hopalong Cassidy gun and holster, a wagon, 46 rolled-up pieces of string, 19 brushes for hair, shoes, Paint or floor, 5 segments of broken mirror, a pink doll carriage with a sort of underslung hammock devised out of more string, a jar full of plastic umbrella tips, 5 canes, some Blue Seal pomade, 6 saws, 7 pairs of scissors, a jar of Maraschino Cocktail Cherries, a medicine dropper, a squashed coffeepot, 2 pinup pictures of Sophia Loren and 1 each of Brigitte Bardot and Julie Newmar, 9 belts, a pair of brown child’s shoes hanging by the laces, a bogus detective badge, 8 augers, a foxtail, a copy of the Koran and a Holy Bible, a 1959 Horoscope, a ladder, a Guide To Sexual Harmony In Marriage, ( Mr. Mack has never married), 9 pliers, 10 screwdrivers, An English-Arabic Dictionary, a pair of white nurse’s shoes, 7 paint scrapers and some Breath O’ Pine All Purpose Cleanser. (“Three months living here and I’m still straightening up”). When people ask him why he collects so many things his favourite answer is to say it’s good for his rheumatism and when people ask him where he was born he likes to say In the kitchen: He could tell because he heard the water running. He is 72 years old, German, an ex-merchant seaman living on his pension.
Once I accompanied him on his daily ritual round which begins at 5:30 A.M., walking down Third Avenue in the freezing dawn picking empty bottles out of garbage cans, loading them into his baby carriage, stopping off a select bars, which are very like private clubs, for parts of breakfast and the early morning special extra free drink; then south and east to the Bottle Collectors. Mr. Mack says he doesn’t do it for the money, and indeed it is precious little money; the day I was there, his 51 bottles yielded a total of 35 cents.
Picking up bottles is what he calls his diversion and he is humorously indulgent when people give him money, which they must seldom dare to do, because he is such an awesome, noble, possessed and legendary figure. I think he is most awfully strong. Often he carries a great sack on his shoulders. He appears to be the bearer of an undecipherable message. Nevertheless he is very fond of polite, aristocratic conversation and he sometimes goes to Union Square for a good etymological argument. He is a Muslim convert and a student of language and philosophy. He has had experiences on the lower astral plane. He says that the average person not only eats too much but breathes too much. And he says that life isn’t suppose to make sense: “If you take it literal, if you try to figure it out, it is a mass of confusion, a pack of lies signifying nothing….The mutable cannot perceive the immutable.” And the last time I saw him he said to me: “It’s a great life if you don’t weaken but you are bound to weaken one day.”
Diane ArbusThe Full Circle
Harper's Bazaar November 1961
Photography & Text: Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
1923-1971
Once a Great Beauty
FROM THE ARCHIVE
devodotcom
posts on Diane Arbus
3/22/12
The Simplicity of Thought
3/21/12
Have A Great Day!
1/25/12
The Vertical Journey
12/31/11
Happy New Year
11/24/11
The Young Heiresses
8/14/11
Bill Blass Designs For Little Ones
7/12/11
The Full Circle:Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay
5/17/11
As You Desire Me
4/25/11
The Full Circle: Max Maxwell Landar
2/14/11
The Couple
1/30/11
She's As Mae West As Ever: Mae West
10/16/10
The Full Circle: William Mack
9/25/10
Mrs. T. Charlton Henry
9/05/10
Fashion Independents On Marriage
8/20/10
The Real Miss Cora Pratt
8/20/10
Miss Cora Pratt
7/29/10
The Full Circle: Jack Dracula
7/27/10
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
7/26/10
Petal Pink For Little Parties
5/24/10
Tokyo Rose
Thursday, July 29, 2010
THE MAGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF DIANE ARBUS
JACK DRACULA
"Jack Dracula, the Marked Man, is embellished with 306 tattoos (estimated value: $6000), and although this work-in-progress conspicuously distinguishes him, he is living in seclusion and I have solemnly sworn not to reveal his whereabouts. There are 28 stars on his face as well as 4 eagles in varying postures, 6 greenish symbols shaped like doughnuts, a Maori mustache and a pair of trompe-l'oeil goggles. Under his hair is the winged cap of Mercury with a rose cluster across his crown. His first tattoo, about four years ago, was a hinge in the crook of his right arm, and now a bat nestles near his left collarbone, a 2-foot-wide eagle fies downward across his chest, a tiger and snake wrestle below his navel, a scorpion grasps a dollar sign on his right forearm, a werewolf stares from his kneecap and on the inside of his underlip in inscribed the name DRACULA. He is also adorned with winged dragons, a peacock, a geisha girl, a cigar-smoking skull in top hat, macabre butterflies, a hypodermic entitled Death Needle, a head of Christ, boats, swords, ghouls, chains, satyrs, cupids, penguins, The Horrible Three (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera); and one afternoon while I sat with him he put a small new rose on his thigh. There is also quite a lot of reading matter like I Love Money, Death Before Marriage, In Memory of Mother, Amor, Dolores, Barcelona Jack, Muerte, Sylvia, Theresa, the names of his three heroes - Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney - and on his fingers the initials of some obscenity which his girlfriends were so good at deciphering that he finally converted the ones on his left hand into flowers.
Jack is tatooed simply because he wants to be."
Diane Arbus
The Full Circle
Harper's Bazaar November 1961
Photography & Text: Diane Arbus
arbus admin girl @devodotcom
FROM THE ARCHIVE
devodotcom
posts on Diane Arbus
3/22/12
The Simplicity of Thought
3/21/12
Have A Great Day!
1/25/12
The Vertical Journey
12/31/11
Happy New Year
11/24/11
The Young Heiresses
8/14/11
Bill Blass Designs For Little Ones
7/12/11
The Full Circle:Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay
5/17/11
As You Desire Me
4/25/11
The Full Circle: Max Maxwell Landar
2/14/11
The Couple
1/30/11
She's As Mae West As Ever: Mae West
10/16/10
The Full Circle: William Mack
9/25/10
Mrs. T. Charlton Henry
9/05/10
Fashion Independents On Marriage
8/20/10
The Real Miss Cora Pratt
8/20/10
Miss Cora Pratt
7/29/10
The Full Circle: Jack Dracula
7/27/10
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
7/26/10
Petal Pink For Little Parties
5/24/10
Tokyo Rose
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