Lauren Bacall

Oh Betty, such good hair. 

celluloidshadows:

Actor Lauren Bacall’s hair and makeup test photos for the 1944 Howard Hawks film “To Have And Have Not”, also starring Humphrey Bogart. Click the pic to watch a scene from the movie.

Beautiful...

so beautiful…

I love this still so much. the distinct type of depth to the image reminds me of one of my favorite photography books OF ALL TIME by Thomas Allen . The precision and the fullness of this frame and the following are so captivating.  (of course Allen’s is a much more tedious process…he uses old pulp book covers with a conventional 4”x5” film camera and manually manipulates all lighting, focus, and “cast”. it’s brilliant).The expressions on these character’s faces convey just as much as the ones in Allen’s work. The wonderful thing is that in the book covers someone was able to create exactly what they wanted those people to be conveying at that precise moment. All of the elements that make this still image so engrossing take a lot of planning as well, but also just a little bit of magic that collaboration can bring… 

oldhollywood:

Marilyn Monroe & Eli Wallach in The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photo by Erich Hartmann.

old photographs today

These were taken a few years ago near my old apartment on a snowy night with my ol digital Olympus EVolt500

 

 

I was sprucing up my hard drive today and came across some old photographs and thought I'd play a bit with photoshop again. There's something about old photographs that I respond to (No, these aren't ACTUALLY old...they're from 2009 maybe? But they're also not Hipstamatic. Thank you.). There's something in the format of old photos. There's something in the grain and desaturation and in the impromptu snapshot. The framing isn't perfect; one couldn't see the final product of their efforts until long after. There was no deleting a picture that wasn't perfect. Pictures reflected people who weren't smiling perfect smiles, there was less than perfect exposure, and there was a real documentation left after all of it. I remember taking these pictures and the one I like the most now (the first one of the handles in a bus) is one that I was very frustratingly trying to get in focus while the bus bounced down the street hitting more bumps in the road than it was missing. It's a good reminder that everything is relative, right? The right photograph presented in the right medium in the right instance can make all the difference.