Miscellaneous B&W Photos

Patrick Hunt for Vogue UK, June 1969. 

Laura Levine, Prince NYC 1981

Janette Beckman, Rude Boys, London, 1981

Kim Novak in Life Magazine for the film Bell, Book, and Candle, 1958

Andy Warhol shot by Dennis Hopper, circa 1961

New York Rocker

The New York Rocker was a monthly paper dedicated to underground music, published from 1976 to 1982. It covered all my favorites, as well as employed awesome music photographers, Laura Levine and Ebet Roberts.

 The Clash, 1979

Devo, December 1979

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I (of course) favor the style used from 1980-1981. Elizabeth van Itallie was the art director.

Lydia Lunch and Lene Lovich, May 1980

Pretenders, June 1980

X, September 1980

Pylon, March 1981

Prince, June 1981

Miscellaneous Babes, classics

Old friend, Joan Jett. Love her red pinky.

Campaign photo from defunct fashion house Genny, 1985.

I totally remember their logo from back then; a signature where you could pretty much only read a G and a Y.

The Prada group shut them down in 2005, and it's hard to find much info about them online. It seems like about half of the info I did find is incorrect, but here seems to be the most reliable info about them.

Bianca Jagger

Prince, in my favorite magazine of eternity, The Face. From 1983.

Joe Strummer in Alex Cox's Straight to Hell, 1987. The film also features Courtney Love, Elvis Costello, Grace Jones, and some Pogues.

Miscellaneous

This is from a March 1990 fashion editorial in Spin magazine. I was happy to discover that there's an archive of old Spin magazines, page-for-page, on Google Books. I used to read it like a handbook when I was a teenager. Ha!

Poster for the German release of the 1962 film Cleo from 5 to 7, by the only female French New Wave director, Agnés Varda, and starring Corinne Marchand. It's about a French pop star who is wandering around Paris, awaiting the results of a biopsy between 5 and 7pm, while most people in the city are out messing around.

The Camel Thru the Needle's Eye was a 3-act comic play published in 1929, written by Frantisek Langer. It was performed between April and October of that year.

This is either a poster or a program guide for the play. It was designed by Frank Walts, a somewhat obscure African-American illustrator. The majority of his known work are covers for The Masses, an American socialist periodical published from 1911 to 1917.  A short biography of Walts appears in Art For The Masses by Rebecca Zurier (Yale University Art Gallery, 1985).

Chet Baker and his wife Halema in 1955. His plight (and concurrent heroin face) is terribly sad.

Vanity and Prince

Miscellaneous

Brass necklace by Hervé Van der Straeten.

Isabella Rossellini 

 Elliot Erwitt, from his "Phototoons" portfolio. They're pretty clever.

Loving that suit! Prince in the Face. The year is probably 1988.

Miscellaneous Babes

Prince, of course. Love that jacket!

Peggy Moffat and Steve McQueen

Doesn't this always go on at Glastonbury?

David Hockney, 1966

Rock me Amadeus!

Miscellaneous

I like this kind of photo shoot where it looks like everyone is having fun. This is Mikhail Baryshnikov with a bunch models.


The single cover to Raspberry Beret.


Card series used to come in packs of cigarettes. This is one in a series that tells you how to hold specific animals.