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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.

Reposted by Dean Frey

Tom Mirga @tommirga.bsky.social · 15m

youtu.be/hT62I7gAi3A?...

The Beatles Suzy Parker (Rare Sessions 1969)

YouTube video by The Beatles In Audio

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14m

Ezra Stoller
Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal at Idlewild Airport, 1962

The swooping lines of the terminal, with a few travellers

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 18m

Suzy Parker by John Rawlings
Vogue, October 15, 1953

Suzy Parker in a white dress with a brown Gunther Jaeckel coat

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 29m

“Since we cannot extract beauty from life, let us at least extract beauty from our inability to extract beauty from life. Let us make of our failure a victory, something proud & positive, complete with pillars, majesty & spiritual acquiescence.”
- Fernando Pessoa

📷 Kurt Cobain by Henry Diltz, 1993

Cobain in red light onstage, his hair flying

Reposted by Dean Frey

Gordon Henderson @gordonhenderson.bsky.social · 4h

17 is Phil Roberto. 19 is Terry Harper.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 16h

Carole Lombard photographed by Robert Coburn. This photo session was taken shortly before she died and was intended as publicity for her next planned film, They All Kissed The Bride (1942).

Reposted by Dean Frey

Boo Jank @billjank.bsky.social · 10h

The idea of being a hockey goalie without a helmet and mask just boggles my mind

Thread of great pictures.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Denis Brodeur was himself a goaltender. Here he is with Canada's Olympic Team, in training to defend their title against Russia in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, 1956

Black & white photo of Brodeur (sans mask) in the net.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Denis Brodeur by André Ringuette

He's back at the Forum to photograph his son Martin reach a record-tying 551 wins during a Devils-Habs game, March 14, 2009

A shame Martin Brodeur, one of the best goalies ever, didn't play for Montreal, but Habs fans can't complain about their goaltending history.

Brodeur sits at ice level with a camera & a very long lens.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

A wonderful photograph by Denis Brodeur:

Denis Potvin, Gilbert Perreault & Guy Lafleur celebrate a goal against Czech goalie Vladimir Dzurilla during the Canada Cup Final at the Montreal Forum, September 15, 1976

Canada won the best two-out-of-three final in two games.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Denis Brodeur was the official photographer for the Montreal Canadiens. This shot shows Habs Ken Dryden #29, Murray Wilson #17, Larry Robinson #19 & Jacques Laperriere #2. The Maple Leaf in the middle is Dave Keon; who's the Leaf behind him?
#GoHabsGo

A scramble for the puck in front of Dryden. A referee watches over the play in the middle.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Patrick Roy of the #Habs makes a save with Boston's Scott Arniel waiting for the rebound. Another great shot by Denis Brodeur, from 1991

Action around the net. Roy makes a great save.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Denis Brodeur was himself a goaltender. Here he is with Canada's Olympic Team, in training to defend their title against Russia in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, 1956

Black & white photo of Brodeur (sans mask) in the net.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Remembering Denis Brodeur on his birthday 🎂

The father of the great goalie Martin Brodeur was a very fine sports photographer. I love this 1960 shot of Gordie Howe scoring on Johnny Bower.

Toronto Maple Leaf goalie Bower turns to see that Detroit Red Wing Gordie Howe's shot go in the net.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Robert Mangold
Green/2 Orange X Painting, 1983

Abstract wall sculpture: two diagonals - one green, the other orange & red - in a cross.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Robert Mangold
Untitled, 1995

"I think I have a thing about the idea of incompleteness; that there’s almost a kind of longing in the work for completeness, for a kind of impossible resolution since you’re always given only certain amounts of information."

Abstract painting: an incomplete circle in brown & blue, with inscribed ovals in black.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Robert Mangold
Split Ring Image, 2009
Galerie Greta Meert

"Newman and Rothko were kind of my goal posts in terms of my playing field. Rothko’s surface and Newman’s architecture inspired me in certain ways."

Abstract painting: two joined half circles in orange and blue

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Happy birthday Robert Mangold 🎂
📷 Bernard Gotfryd, 1970s

"His paintings put 'less is more' into an active tense by repeatedly and in different ways showing a little doing a lot, and then some more."
- Roberta Smith

DNKT: Filmmaker James Mangold is the painter's son.

The painter with an abstract painting of his - a large red X on a white background - behind him.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony #4, from 1935, with Dimitri Mitropoulos & the NY Philharmonic

youtube.com/watch?v=IrEQ...

"I met Willy Walton on the way to the Hall and he said — having been to the rehearsals — that we were going to hear the greatest symphony since Beethoven."
- Arthur Benjamin

Album cover
Vaughan Williams
Symphony no. 4
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Symphony no. 6
Leopold Stokowski
New York Philharmonic

Collage of a city in ruins.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica, which drew on his music for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic.

youtube.com/watch?v=Mv6Y...

Stuart Franklin, 1990
Robert Falcon Scott's hut at Cape Evans, used on his final expedition to Antarctica in 1912.

A hut with long skis next to it. Ice in the background.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Yousuf Karsh made two portraits of Ralph Vaughan Williams on July 27, 1949.

In January 1949 Leopold Stokowski performed his 6th Symphony in New York. "This is music", he said, "that will take its place with the greatest creations of the masters."

youtube.com/watch?v=zkF7...

Black & white portrait of the composer opening a door.

Closeup portrait from the same sitting. The composer with his hand to his chin.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h

Ralph Vaughan Williams by Sibella Bonham-Carter, 1928

Sir John in Love, 1924/28
youtube.com/watch?v=HUHa...

Pastel portrait of the middle-aged composer
RV-W 1926 ..
Signed by the artist

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11h

My favourite work by Ralph Vaughan Williams is his G Minor Mass, from 1921.

And my favourite version, by The Roger Wagner Chorale, from 1967.

Listen here: archive.org/details/lp_v...

LP on the turntable, with the cover next to it.
The Roger Wagner Chorale
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor for Double Choir
Bach: Christ Lag In Todesbanden (Cantata BWV 4)

A photo of a German Renaissance wood carving of Christ on the Cross.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11h

Ralph Vaughan Williams by Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, 1952/53

"In the next world, I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it."

RVW in a three piece suit, sitting on a carved wooden chair.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11h

A marvellous photo by Erich Auerbach: Lionel Tertis plays "Flos Campi" for Ralph & Ursula Vaughan Williams, at their house in Regent's Park.

"Afterwards we had tea with Herbert Menges, who was conducting the performance."
- EA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Ys...

The violist plays in the foreground. In the background, Ursula & Ralph listen on a couch. RVW follows on the score.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11h

Happy birthday Ralph Vaughan Williams 🎂
📷 Norman Parkinson, 1951

"It’s funny that people never think of Vaughan Williams as having a lightness of touch, & yet to me there is sometimes a very beautiful, luminous, radiant quality to his music."
- Nicola LeFanu

Black & white photo of RVW wearing a wool sweater & a sport coat.