Category Archives: context

way back

Biograph‘s forefathers, the first meeting of all the four members of the K.M.C.D. Syndicate,—left to right, H.N. Marvin, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, Herman Casler and E.B. Koopman—when they posed on Casler’s lawn at Canastota, New York, September 22, 1895.

advertising

1946.

cute couple alert

Ben Gazzara and Audrey Hepburn in They All Laughed. Peter Bogdanovich. 1981.

on your sleeve

Why Can’t We Be Friends?. War. 1975.

cute band alert

The Stone Roses.

bette davis

Killer sunglasses on Ms. Davis. 1934.

cover art

night moves

Gene Hackman kicks some ass in Night Moves. Arthur Penn. 1975.

dig the critics

Sight and Sound. May 1950. (If you can’t read that tiny, tiny print click to enlarge.)

festival time!

Jean-Luc Godard and Richard Roud at the New York Film Festival. 1963.