Monthly Archives: December 2012

advertising

Posted on December 21, 2012 | Leave a comment

Circa 1958.

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f for fields

Posted on December 20, 2012 | 1 comment

Claude with Freddie Bartholomew as the young David in David Copperfield. George Cukor. 1935.

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nickelodeon

Posted on December 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

Burt Reynolds in Nickelodeon. Peter Bogdanovich. 1976.

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the decorative sex

Posted on December 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

Chili Bouchier in You Know What Sailors Are. Maurice Elvey. 1928.

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f for orson

Posted on December 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

Orson and Marlene Dietrich in Touch of Evil. 1958.

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Image

cover art

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Posted on December 16, 2012 in cinema, context, cover art

record labels

Posted on December 15, 2012 | 1 comment

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. Sex Pistols. 1977.

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cute band alert

Posted on December 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

elastica

Elastica. 1995.

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festival time!

Posted on December 13, 2012 | Leave a comment

Holden Fedora

William Holden at the Cannes screening of Billy Wilder‘s Fedora. 1978.

And that’s Jacques Tati that Holden is staring at, right?

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ravi shankar is dead

Posted on December 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

Ravi Shankar

Sitar master and long-term George Harrison collaborator Ravi Shankar, who brought “world music” to the 1960s rock festival circuit, died yesterday at age 92. Here’s an obit.

Ravi in India

In India. Photo by George Harrison. 1966.

Dark Horse Ravi

Ravi goes Hollywood: with Peter Sellers and George Harrison during the Dark Horse Tour. 1974.

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