Category Archives: context

cute band alert

Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. 1956.

press conference 1965

Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot in Mexico for a press conference to promote Louis Malle’s Viva Maria. 1965.

f for fields

Fields and Bolan and Ringo. 1972.

truffaut directs

François Truffaut and Isabelle Adjani filming The Story of Adèle H. 1975.

alphaville

Anna Karina in Alphaville. Godard. 1965.

front row

Watching The Stones at Altamont. December 6, 1969.

The Angels vs The Airplane.

coming soon

90s Week.

a book by its cover

record labels

Rudy Ray Moore on Dooto. 1959.

I had this record out for another post and before returning it to the shelf I gave it a listen. The contents are about what you’d expect but the label has a nice design to it and it’s pressed on surprisingly high quality vinyl for such a fly-by-night record company.

the decorative sex

Sharon Tate as photographed by Polanski on the set of The Fearless Vampire Killers. 1967. (That’s Ferdy Mayne as the vampire, Count von Krolock.)