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Dean Frey

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aka Deny Fear 📷 Esther Bubley Man on Platform, c. 1951 Profile: Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window "And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling." - Bruce Chatwin

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Nov 20

Another cup of coffee? No thanks, I've had plenty... Ha ha ha ha ha! I'm just kidding. Keep 'em coming. ☕️☕️☕️

Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922

This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.

Baxter, offered a cup of coffee, waves the woman with the pot away.

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Mrs. Wilberforce @mrs-wilberforce.bsky.social · 7h

Yves Montand and this song - so French.

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Yves Montand - Les Feuilles Mortes

YouTube video by paccaggicco

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 7h

Bought the new Pynchon in hardcover today, at our local indie bookseller, fulfilling two promises to self. Read the first few pages while waiting for our lunch sandwiches to be toasted in a nearby patisserie, immediately getting that in-for-a-good-read feeling.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 9h

There's a couple for this slot. So let's go with this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkZJ...

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 7h

Judy Collins sings Ian Tyson’s great song “Someday Soon” on The Smothers Brothers, 1969.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70-...

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 8h

How it started…

… how it’s going

Sue Lyon as Lolita, wearing red heart-shaped sunglasses, photographed by Bert Stern

Bob Hope as a “hippie” on his TV show, wearing a wig & heart-shaped sunglasses

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 9h

me: Do you get into a headspace when you're writing songs where, say, you’d imagine you're a werewolf?

Paul Simon: No. No. web.archive.org/web/20160617...

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 15h

Happy birthday Paul Simon 🎂
📷 Michael Putland, 1986

"His songs’ narrators are often lonely & isolated, teetering between estrangement & a longing for connection, between hope for the next generation & intimations of doom."
- Jon Pareles
@jonpareles.bsky.social

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Ken Levine
New Yorker
September 18, 2023

Paul Simon’s “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover”, with Steve Gadd’s great drum riff, & backup vocals by Patti Austin, Valerie Simpson & Phoebe Snow:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABXt...

Description: A person being beamed up into a flying saucer as their partner watches.

Caption: 51st Way To Leave Your Lover

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 13h

I wrote about Sylvia Plachy back in 2008. "That’s my sense of Sylvia Plachy and her photography. It’s a constant, consistent expression of gratitude for simple, honest things."

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Sylvia Plachy – Sunday Salon

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Mack11211 @mack11211.bsky.social · 14h

Once years ago I went to the premiere party for a Brody film with all the stars but the high point of the evening for me was meeting her

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Mack11211 @mack11211.bsky.social · 14h

I knew & loved her from her longtime collaboration with Guy Trebay in the VV www.publishersweekly.com/9781566392082

In the Place to Be PB by Guy Trebay

Trebay, a columnist and editor at the Village Voice, is a good writer, a gutsy man and a mensch, but his columns arranged here i...

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

She’s taken some great pictures of Brody, going back to his childhood

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Mack11211 @mack11211.bsky.social · 14h

Plachy is also the mother of Adrien Brody!

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 15h

In the 60’s I’d often come home to my mother playing Yves Montand records. I learned a bit of French singing along to L’Assassin du Dimanche and C’est si Bon.

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Eric Z. @ericzieg.bsky.social · 14h

I like how he’s like a little ‘Meet The Beatles’ head in this winter scene:

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

Here's an outtake from P. A. Harper's photoshoot with Paul Simon for that 1971 album. Great shot. Great dog.

Another shot from the same photoshoot, in black & white. This time we can see Simon's face underneath his parka, and the dog looks ahead.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

For You're the One, from 2000, Warner once again got a top rank photographer: Lynn Goldsmith.

This might be my favourite of Paul Simon's solo album covers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2A...

Simon, in an open white shirt & red baseball cap, sits on a bench.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

There's also a wonderful portrait of Paul Simon on the back of the liner booklet for The Rhythm of the Saints. It's by Sylvia Plachy, a very fine Hungarian photographer who worked for many years at The Village Voice.

Simon walks by an intersection in Greenwich Village, a Pharmacy sign across the street.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

Paul Simon's The Rhythm of the Saints, from 1990, features a front cover by Miguel Rio Branco. Meanwhile, the back cover is by the great Bruno Barbey.

I'm not sure if these photos were taken for the album, or if the Warner's design team flipped through Magnum's Brazil catalogue.

Album cover
The Rhythm of the Saints
Paul Simon

Shot of two Brazilian indigenous dancers, wearing red feathers.

Back cover
A procession of Brazilians lined up in the jungle, perhaps to make offerings at a shrine.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

The cover of There Goes Rhymin' Simon, from 1973, was a bit of a departure.

As with the Avedon Simon & Garfunkel LP, Columbia pulls out all the stops here. The design of this LP is by the great Milton Glaser.

Album front cover
A collage, with one image for each song on the album

Album back cover
More images; one for each song.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

Here's an outtake from P. A. Harper's photoshoot with Paul Simon for that 1971 album. Great shot. Great dog.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

Paul Simon's solo album covers get off to a great start with 1971's Paul Simon. These shots are by P. A. Harper.

Album cover
Simon wears a fur-lined parka

Album back cover
Black & white shot of Simon, his face partially obscured by his parka, with a black & white dog, against a stone wall.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

For 1970's Bridge Over Troubled Water, the front cover photo by Abbott Mills & Peter Powell is very fine, but it's the back cover shot that's special.

Album cover
Simon and Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon stands, wearing a coat & plaid scarf. The much taller Garfunkel stands behind him.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

And the Simon & Garfunkel LP covers got even better as we got into the later 60s:

📷 Guy Webster's great shot for Sounds of Silence,

and to top things off,
📷 Richard Avedon's portrait of Paul & Artie, for Bookends

Album cover
Simon & Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence
The two walking up a rural road; they both turn back to look at the camera.

Album cover
Bookends / Simon & Garfunkel

Black & white head & shoulders shot of the two

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

I have very fond memories of the first four Simon & Garfunkel LPs. Great music, of course, but also great album photos.

Wednesday Morning, 3 am: 📷 Henry Parker
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme: 📷 Bob Cato

Album cover
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

Paul with his guitar, Artie behind him; both stand in a subway station.

Album Cover
Simon & Garfunkel
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

The two pose admidst flowers & plants.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

Paul Simon's "American Tune" borrows the German hymn "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" (O Sacred Head Now Wounded).

Here's Bach's version from the St. Matthew Passion, sung without Artie Garfunkel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY-a...

Bach Matthew Passion Chorale Settings - O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden

YouTube video by silvertone953

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

Paul Simon backstage at Nippon Budokan
📷 Koh Hasebe, April 9, 1974

"American Tune"
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