© Thomas Mickalene, 2006, Afro Goddess Ex Lover’s Friend
AUCTION RESULTS: THE CUTE EDITION
Sold for $23,750 at The Curious Collector: Important Photographs from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana, 2 & 3 April 2013, New York.
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© Burnéd Shoés, 2010, Haridwar, India
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ANDY WARHOL’S STUDIO 54 POLAROIDS
A Polaroid print of Studio 54 co-owner Steve Rubell and Grace Jones snapped by Andy Warhol went for $10,000 at an auction of ephemera from the legendary 70s New York club in Miami in January. Most of the lots from Rubell’s personal collection went for far in excess of their estimates at the Modernauctions sale.
The prices were driven by photographic collectors who snapped up celebrity shots of Cher, Sly Stallone, Bianca Jagger, the Kennedy children, Steven Tyler and Truman Capote.
Many former Studio 54 regulars and employees were at the auction, including cross-dressing Fort Lauderdale artist Electra, a celebrity imitator at the club who worked as a hostess at Saturday’s auction wearing a white afro wig and her original 70s roller-disco skates.
The Studio 54 door policy was legendarily tough, with Rubell policing it assidulously. He once refused admission to the king of Cyprus, “because he looked like somebody from Queens”.
There was one poignant moment when a former bartender at the club was gazumped in his efforts to buy a $1500 Polaroid of himself partying with Diana Ross back in the day. The auction booklet had quoted an expected price of between $300 and $600. “I can’t really go beyond $400,” the tender said before the auction. “I’ve been a bartender my whole life. I’m not a rich man.” (read more)
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© Elliott Landy, 1969, Richie Havens at Woodstock (3 Days of Peace & Music)
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HAPPY EARTH DAY!
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
PHOTO: © NASA, 1984, Astronaut Bruce McCandless with Earth in Background
Tim Hetherington remembered in film, News Report
On April 20, 2011, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed by mortar shells fired by Libyan forces while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war. May his soul rest in peace.
Two years after his death, Tim Hetherington is the subject of a new HBO documentary, Which Way is the Frontline From Here?, which sheds light on his motivations as a photojournalist and filmmaker, and his untimely death.
“I don’t really care about photography. I’m interested in engaging people with ideas and views of the world,” Tim Hetherington once said. This sentence has defined the journalist’s career and is now the focus of Which Way is the Frontline From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, an HBO documentary directed by Sebastian Junger. (read more on BJP and TIME)
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#1: © Tim Hetherington, Jun 25, 2003, A member of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade exchanges a brief, tender word with his girlfriend during heavy fighting in Monrovia, Liberia
#2: © Eddy Risch, 2008, Portrait of Tim Hetherington
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JOHN OLSON - LIFE WITH ROCK STARS …AND THEIR PARENTS
They had fame, reams of money and fans willing to do wild, unmentionable things just to breathe the same air — but in its September 24, 1971 issue, LIFE magazine illustrated a different side of the lives of rock stars. Like other mere mortals, they often came from humble backgrounds, with moms and dads who bragged about them, fussed over them, called them on their nonsense and worried about them every single day. Assigned to take portraits of the artists at home with their sweetly square folks, photographer John Olson traveled from the suburbs of London to Brooklyn to the Bay Area, capturing in his work the love that bridged any cultural and generational divides that existed between his subjects.
Unlike the other stars featured in LIFE’s story, the Jackson brothers — Michael, Marlon, Tito, Jermaine and Jackie — experienced fame as kids, and still lived with their parents (father/manager Joe and mother Katherine). At the time of LIFE’s shoot, they were the hottest act in pop, skyrocketing in 1970 with “ABC” and “I’ll Be There,” and had just moved into an expansive new house.
“It was very controlled,” Olson says of the photo shoot that resulted in the September, 24, 1971 LIFE cover. “As I remember, they followed my requests to a T, and were incredibly polite. The dad was pretty stern.”
Indeed, Joe — who had been a crane operator in Gary, Indiana, just three years before — hinted at the relentless drive toward fame about which Michael would later voice such ambivalence. “It wasn’t hard to know they could go on to be professionals,” Joe told LIFE of his young sons. “They won practically all the talent shows and I wasn’t surprised when they did make it.” (+)
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#1: © John Olson / Time & Life / Getty, 1970, Olson sets up to shoot the Jackson 5 in their backyard
#2: © John Olson / Time & Life / Getty, 1970, With their parents standing by, 13-year-old dynamo Michael (front left) and his brothers Jackie, Marlon, Tito and Jermaine straddle their motorbikes by the pool
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© John Olson / Time & Life / Getty, 1970, Richie Havens & his parents, Brooklyn
The musician who opened the show at Woodstock grew up with his folks, Richard and Mildred, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, but he bought them this home in nearby East Flatbush when his music career took off. The Havenses had nine kids and, as Mrs. Havens told LIFE, “Richie is the only one who’s really moved away. I can’t get rid of most of them.”
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