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Mike Disfarmer Between 1915 and 1959, American studio photographer Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959) made portraits of the residents of Heber Springs, a small town in rural Arkansas. Only after his death did his work become internationally known and acclaimed. (A large cache of negatives shot by Disfarmer was found in the 1970s by Peter Miller who spent a year cleaning, preserving and cataloging them.) Born Mike Meyer in Indiana, one of seven children in a family of German immigrants, Disfarmer arrived in Heber Springs with his mother in 1914. Changing his surname to "Disfarmer" was the first move in a maverick career that embraced both obscurity and a rigorous aesthetic. Disfarmer maintained a portrait studio in Heber Springs and photographed members of the local community for small fees. His "penny portraits" employed a stark realism and often lengthy, unnervingly mute sitting sessions that resulted in a consistent stream of portraits that strip his subjects into an uncanny intimacy. The images are said by some to capture the essence of a particular community in a particular time with piercing solemnity and a touching simplicity. Disfarmer's reclusive lifestyle has left many details of his life obscure or uncertain. In 2008, a picture by Disfarmer was used on the 80th Academy Awards telecast as the alleged portrait of Roderick Jaynes, the film editing pseudonym of the Coen brothers, who was nominated that year for editing the Coens' No Country for Old Men. The Disfarmer photo was supplied to the Academy by the Coens after Jaynes' nomination. Images by Mike Disfarmer ... Young Man with Hat, 1939 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rM3Yp8W5aV4/TVVlQuxvjqI/AAAAAAAAAdE/75qbuJmGPuA/s1600/disfarmer%2B4.jpg Unidentified http://monovisions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mike-disfarmer-the-vintage-prints-07.jpg Unidentified http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3titWmp78uU/TmO76vI5MfI/AAAAAAAABOs/luCxoFm78DM/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Picture4.jpg Unidentified http://www.amsterdamtrashure.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mike-disfarmer-the-vintage-prints-04.jpg Unidentified Unidentified, ca. 1940 http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/gallery/photo/mike_disfarmer_f.jpg The "Roderick Jaynes" photograph used by the Coen brothers

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Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an American singer, actor and Civil Rights activist who became politically involved in response to the Spanish Civil War, fascism and social injustices. His advocacy of anti-imperialism, affiliation with communism, and criticism of the United States government led to his being blacklisted during the McCarthy era. http://www.fad.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/clara_blkicons-900x600.jpg At age 28 (1926), below, Robeson posed for photographer Nikolas Muray ... My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. PR

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Jacques Sernas (sometimes billed as Jack Sernas),1925-2015, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career. The son of Jokūbas Šernas (a signatory of the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania, who died when Sernas was one year old), his mother took him to Paris, where he received his formal education. During WWII, he joined the French Resistance, was captured and interned at Buchenwald. After the war, Sernas considered a career in medicine, then journalism, before making his film debut in Miroir (1946). Below left, in the surf, he is age 23 (1948) in a photograph by Raymond Voinquel. http://www.mancrushes.com/sites/default/files/Jacques-Sernas-young-3.jpg

Lewis Morley http://milesago.com/People/images/morley62.jpg http://www.lewismorley.com/images/LMcat1.JPG Born in Hong Kong to a Chinese mother and an English father, British photographer Lewis Morley (1925-2013) was raised as part of Hong Kong's European colonial elite, but his teenage years were dramatically interrupted by the Japanese invasion in 1941, and the Morleys spent the rest of the war in a Japanese internment camp. From the late 1950s, Morley worked on assignment for Tatler magazine, depicting British socialites and celebrities. He was the first to take published photographs of models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, and is responsible for many legendary images from the Swinging Sixties. In 1963, Morley met Christine Keeler, the young model and showgirl made famous by her involvement with both a British government minister and a Soviet diplomat in what became known as The Profumo Affair. Keeler sat for a portrait intended to promote a film, The Keeler Affair, that was never released in the United Kingdom. Keeler was reluctant to pose in the nude, but the film producers insisted. Morley persuaded Keeler to sit astride a plywood chair, so that the back of the chair would obscure most of her body. (The photo propelled Arne Jacobsen's model 3107 chair to prominence, but the actual chair used was an imitation.) The picture was published, uncredited, in the Sunday Mirror and became the scandalous embodiment of the decade’s sexual freedom. Christine Keeler later resented the image for being "a constant reminder of difficult days" while Lewis Morley believed it overshadowed the rest of his work and often referred to it as "that fucking Keeler shot." By the beginning of the 1970s, Morley’s magazine and theatre work in London was petering out, and he emigrated to Australia, where -- Bingo! -- it was the Sixties all over again. Images by Lewis Morley ... http://www.vam.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0007/184273/2006al2240_christine_keeler_arno.jpg "That fucking Keeler shot," 1963 The Bowery, New York, 1962 Judi Dench, London, 1965 Dudley Mo0re as the Fairy Queen, Frith Street, London, ca. 1963/64 Joe Orton, 1965 François Truffaut, London, 1961 Cecil Beaton, Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, ca. 1959/60

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Féral Benga (1906-1957) was a Senegalese cabaret dancer, who, like his female counterpart, Josephine Baker, created a sensation on the Paris stage with his “carnal choreography" often set in steamy and distant places. Immediately below, at age 28 (1934), in a photograph by George Platt Lynes. Sculptor Richmond Barthe's 1935 bronze of Benga is in the collection of the Newark Museum. http://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/objects/SC227371.jpg

John Gielgud (1904-2000), shown below in 1930 (age 26) as Hamlet in a production staged at the Old Vic by Harcourt Williams using the complete text of the play. This was a radical innovation (extensive cuts had been customary for earlier productions), but a running time of nearly five hours did not dampen the enthusiasm of either the public or the critics. Gielgud's performance was richly praised, theatre critic James Agate writing, "I have no hesitation whatsoever in saying that it is the high water-mark of English Shakespearean acting of our time." Years Later: On the evening of 20 October 1953, Gielgud, usually highly discreet, was arrested in Chelsea for cruising in a public lavatory. Until the 1960s, sexual activity of any kind between men was illegal in Britain. The Home Secretary of the day, David Maxwell Fyfe, was fervently homophobic, urging the police to arrest anyone who contravened the Victorian laws against homosexuality. Gielgud was fined, and when the press reported the story, he worried the disgrace would end his career. The news broke when he was in Liverpool on the pre-London tour of a new play, A Day by the Sea. According to his biographer, Gielgud was so paralyzed by nerves that going onstage seemed impossible. His fellow players encouraged him, and it was the formidable Dame Sybil Thorndike who grabbed him, whispered, "Come on, John darling, they won't boo me", and led him firmly on to the stage. The audience gave Gielgud a standing ovation. They cheered, they applauded, they shouted. The message was quite clear. The English public had always been loyal to its favorites, and this was their chance to show that they didn't care tuppence what he had done in his private life; they loved him and they respected him. It was a moment never forgotten by those who witnessed it.

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Steve Reeves (1926 – 2000), a professional bodybuilder, 1950 Mr. Universe and an actor, traveled to Italy in the mid-1950s to star in a series of Italian-made films featuring characters such as Hercules, Goliath and Sandokan. By 1960, he was the number-one box-office draw in twenty-five countries around the world. He later turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No (1962) because of a low salary offer, and also refused the Clint Eastwood role in A Fistful of Dollars (1964) because he could not believe that "Italians could make a western." http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WwxAaQ3lDrk/Tb_neIXCsOI/AAAAAAAADbg/IpAEStw1VR4/s1600/WP_SR_Nude2.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X0DuRiRkfrI/TPWRxO-RE6I/AAAAAAAAAgw/V-1bFUe5FbE/s1600/SteveReevesScan5.jpg

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Bert Hardy http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bert-hardy-picture-post-getty-3.jpg Bert Hardy (1913-1995), born in London, joined the illustrated magazine Picture Post during the Second World War, and worked there as a staff photographer and then Chief Photographer from 1941 to 1957. Self-taught, he used a Leica--an unconventional choice for press photographers of that era. His images of the London Blitz are amongst the finest and closest to the action taken. Images by Bert Hardy ... http://dazedimg.dazedgroup.netdna-cdn.com/1500x1200/azure/dazed-prod/1100/7/1107072.jpg Too Many Spivs,* Notting Hill Gate, 1942 * spiv: a man, typically characterized by flashy dress, who makes a living by disreputable dealings Wasteland Gamblers. (A group of spivs with time on their hands play dice for money in a London wasteland area.) Life of an East End Parson, 1940 Firefighters, London, 1941 Royal Wedding: King George VI escorting Princess Elizabeth, 1947 http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/cleaning-the-streets-bert-hardy.jpg Cleaning the Streets, Piccadilly, London Children in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, 1948 (The tenements of Gorbals were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s. One hundred years later, they were considered among the worst slums in Europe. ) http://www.slightly-out-of-focus.com/photo%20images/Bert%20Hardy/e%20yorks%20bert%20hardy.jpg On D-Day, 6th June 1944, Bert Hardy travelled to Gosport to record the arrival of the first wounded back from the Normandy invasion beaches. His portrait of this wounded soldier, mug of tea in hand, made the front cover of Picture Post. Fifty years later, the man was identified as Private Ron Major of the 2nd battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. He had landed on Sword beach in the first wave on D-Day and was wounded in the hand. His comment on the photograph 50years on: "Of course I was smiling. I was one of the lucky ones. I was still alive. I was going home." In 1951, after writing an article for amateur photographers suggesting that they didn't need expensive equipment to take good pictures, Hardy used a Box Brownie camera to take a carefully posed photograph of two young women sitting on a railing above a Blackpool promenade. The photograph became an iconic image of post-war Britain.

Allan "Rocky" Lane (1909-1973) made his film debut in 1929, and became the star of many cowboy B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s (notably as Red Ryder, in a series of films based on a Western comic strip). Lane appeared in more than 125 films and TV shows in a career lasting from 1929 to 1966. His last acting roles were voice-overs, including the memorable voice of Mister Ed on the television show that ran from 1961-1966. http://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll3dsqiLqO1qb8ugro1_500.jpg http://listyes.com/src/p/6/120002/600010379.jpg And later on ...

Terence Hill (originally Mario Girotti) is the son of an Italian father and a German mother. Born in Venice in 1939, now 78 yeas old, he's had a long career as an actor (often in so-called "spaghetti westerns"), director, screenwriter and film producer. At the height of his popularity, he was one of Italy's highest-paid actors. http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/9894227/736full-terence-hill.jpg http://www.shortscore.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Terence_Hill_1.jpg

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