Born on this day – Matthew Lewis:

Matthew Lewis

Photographer

Photojournalist

March 8, 1930 – October 2, 2024

Credits:

Awarded Pulitzer Prize for work with The Washington Post in 1975.

Born on this day – Oliviero Toscani:

Oliviero Toscani

Photographer

Actor

Director

Writer

February 28, 1942 – January 13, 2025

Credits:

Movies and television:

60 Minutes / Segment: Ciao Venezia (2000); Ah! Quels titres (1995); American Moon (2017); Anorexia. Storia di un'immagine (2008); Basilico - L'infinito è la in fondo (2023); Benetton: True Crime (2023); Blackboards (2000); Blood on the Carpet (2001); Camera Café (2003); Can Creativity Save the World? (2023); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2016); Closeup (2010); Closeup (2010); Corto circuito (1996); Da Clay ad Alì - La metamorfosi (2016); Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur (2016); Der radikale Gärtner - Grenzgänge in Kunst und Werbung (2009); Die Invasion der Ideen (2006); Du côté de chez Fred (1988); Eurotrash (1999); Femmefille (2014); Fotografi (2014); Il complotto di Tirana (2024); Illuminate - Oriana Fallaci (2019); Into the Image (2023); Kulturplatz (2011–2024); La Dolce Vita Grande (1973); La marche du siècle (2000); Le grand journal de Canal+ (2005); L'orfano (2002); Master of Photography (2016–2019); Maurizio Costanzo Show (1993); Meraviglie: La penisola dei tesori (2020); Milano-Roma (1998); Na plovárne (2004); Nulle part ailleurs (1996); Nulle part ailleurs. 1ère partie (2000); Oliviero Toscani, Pure Tuscany (2023); On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde (2005); Paris-Berlin, le débat (2008); Personal Che (2007); PositivE (2021); Problema (2010); Revólver (1996); Rossotrevi - The red fountain (2018); Silenci? (2005); Stanotte a Firenze (2016); Stupefying! (2018); Surely Some Mistake (1997); The A to Z of Separating People from Their Money (1998); The Ax (2005); The Media Show (1989); Thé ou café (2005); The World's Best Sellers: The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money (1996); Vaccini. 9 lezioni di scienza (2019); Vivement dimanche (2013); You Will Be with Us in Paradise (2019).

Born on this day – Ansel Adams:

Ansel Adams

Photographer

Environmentalist

February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984

Credits:

Books:

Basic Photo Book 1, Camera & Lens: Studio, Darkroom, Equipment; Basic Photo Book 2, The Negative: Exposure and Development; Basic Photo Book 3, The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging; Basic Photo Book 4, Natural Light Photography; Basic Photo Book 5, Artificial Light Photography; Images 1923–1974; Making a Photograph: An Introduction to Photography; Polaroid Land Photography Manual; Polaroid Land Photography; Yosemite and the Range of Light.

Movies and television:

American Experience (2002); Ansel Adams, Photographer (1957); Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (2002); Ben Casey (1962); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2023); Electrode Universe (2013); Invitation au voyage (2021); The Other Side of Mars (2019); Today (1985).

Born on this day – Ralph Steiner:

Ralph Steiner

Photographer

Filmmaker

February 8, 1899 – July 13, 1986

Credits:

Look Park (1974); This Is Tomorrow (1943); The City (1939); People of the Cumberland (1937); The River (1938); Pie in the Sky (1935); Cafe Universal (1934); Hands (1934); Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or the Lovely Life of Little Lisa (1931); Surf and Seaweed (1931); Mechanical Principles (1931); H2O (1929).

Born on this day – Lucy Saroyan:

Lucy Saroyan

Actress

Photographer

Library archivist

January 17, 1946 – April 11, 2003

Credits:

Blue Collar (1978); Bravo Two (1977); Cactus Flower (1969); Columbo (1976); Eight Is Enough (1977); Greased Lightning (1977); Hopscotch (1980); Isadora (1968); Kotch (1971); Maidstone (1970); Mannix (1971); Prime Time (1977); Some Kind of a Nut (1969); The Blue Knight (1975–1976); The Name of the Game (1971); The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974).

Born on this day – Lorey Sebastian:

Lorey Sebastian

On-set movie still photographer

January 7, 1944 – May 9, 2022

Credits:

Hell or High Water (2016); A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014); 50 to 1 (2014); Frank (2014); Building Vegas (2013); As Cool as I Am (2013); Tiger Eyes (2012); Fright Night (2011); The Resident (2011); True Grit (2010); Passion Play (2010); The Killer Inside Me (2010); Crazy Heart (2009); Brothers (2009); Carriers (2009); Spoken Word (2009); Appaloosa (2008); Redbelt (2008); Living Hell (2008); In the Valley of Elah (2007); In the Land of Women (2007); Wild Hogs (2007); Bordertown (2007); Seraphim Falls (2006); Relative Strangers (2006); Even Money (2006); Big Love (2006); Mrs. Harris (2005); Havoc (2005); The Amateurs (2005); The Last Shot (2004); Crash (2004); Spartan (2004); The Clearing (2004); Carnivàle (2003); 11:14 (2003); Masked and Anonymous (2003); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); The United States of Leland (2003); The Singing Detective (2003); Moonlight Mile (2002); I Am Sam (2001); Blow (2001); Avant Feat. Keke Wyatt: My First Love (2000); The Cell (2000); If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000); Anywhere But Here (1999); Simpatico (1999); American Beauty (1999); Winchell (1998); The Parent Trap (1998); Slums of Beverly Hills (1998); Twilight (1998); Mousehunt (1997); Commandments (1997); Volcano (1997); Head Above Water (1996); Ransom (1996); Flirting with Disaster (1996); The Birdcage (1996); Beautiful Girls (1996); Three Wishes (1995); To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995); Smoke (1995); Safe Passage (1994); Imaginary Crimes (1994); The Favor (1994); Blank Check (1994); Flesh and Bone (1993); Mariah Carey: Hero (1993); Dangerous Game (1993); American Playhouse (1992); Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992); Boris and Natasha (1992); The Player (1992); Rush (1991); Late for Dinner (1991); White Palace (1990); Q&A (1990); Crazy People (1990); Communion (1989); Limit Up (1989); The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989); Lost Angels (1989); Far North (1988); Earth Girls Are Easy (1988); Pumpkinhead (1988); A Time of Destiny (1988); Tapeheads (1988); Best Seller (1987); House of Games (1987); Tin Men (1987); Slow Burn (1986); Violets Are Blue... (1986); The Money Pit (1986); St. Elmo's Fire (1985); Falling in Love (1984); Iceman (1984); Daniel (1983); Lovesick (1983); The King of Comedy (1982); Author! Author! (1982); Neighbors (1981); So Fine (1981); Boardwalk (1979); Acting Out (1978); Between the Lines (1977).

Born on this day – Karl Struss:

Karl Struss

Cinematographer

Photographer

November 30, 1886 – December 16, 1981

Born on this day – Marcia Resnick:

Marcia Resnick

Photographer

Writer

Artist

Actress

November 21, 1950 – June 18, 2025

Credits:

Books:

Landscape-Loftscape (1986); Punks, Poets, and Provocateurs: New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982 (2015); Re-visions (1978); Tahitian eve (1975).

Movies and television:

Chess (2016); G Man (1978); Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories) (2023); Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos (2024); Looking for Johnny (2014); Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019); Marcia Resnick's Bad Boys (1985); Marcia Resnick's New York City: Photos from 1977 to 1982 (2016); Seduction of Patrick (1979); Story of a Junkie (1985); The Offenders (1980); The Trap Door (1980).

Born on this day – Howard Zieff:

Howard Zieff

Director

Photographer

October 21, 1927 – February 22, 2009

Born on this day – Lorraine O'Grady:

Lorraine O'Grady

Artist

Photographer

Writer

Translator

September 21, 1934 – December 13, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And; Writing in Space, 1973-2019.

Podcast:

Womanica / Visionaries: Lorraine O'Grady (2021).

Born on this day – Jack Cardiff:

Jack Cardiff

Cinematographer

Director

Photographer

September 18, 1914 – April 22, 2009

Born on this day – Ruth Orkin:

Ruth Orkin

Photographer

Writer

Director

September 3, 1921 – January 16, 1985

Credits:

Books:

A Photo Journal (1981); A World Through My Window (1978); More Pictures from My Window (1983); Outside-Morris Engel Ruth Orkin, From Street Photography to Filmmaking (2014); Ruth Orkin (2023); Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit (2021); Ruth Orkin: Above and Beyond (1999); Ruth Orkin: American Girl in Italy The Making of a Classic (2005); Ruth Orkin: Bike Trip (2023); Ruth Orkin: ICP Exhibition (1995); Ruth Orkin: Photo Posch (2023); Ruth Orkin: Women (2023).

Movies and television:

Little Fugitive (1953 / 2006); Lovers and Lollipops (1956); Lunch Money (2010); Morris Engel Home Movies (2021); Morris Engel: The Independent (2008); Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life (1996); Something's Gotta Give (2003); The Dog Lover (1962).

Born on this day – Chris Marker:

Chris Marker

Director

Writer

Photographer

July 29, 1921 – July 29, 2012

Recommended reading:

La Jetée: Ciné-Roman

By Chris Marker.

Zone Books

Distributed by The MIT Press.

Published 1992.

ISBN-10: 0942299663

ISBN-13: 978-0942299663

The inspiration for the movie 12 Monkeys (1995), directed by Terry Gilliam.

Description:

In the aftermath of World War III, both the earth’s surface and all of history – everything ever dreamed or known – lies irretrievably buried in a heap of radioactive devastation. Space has become off-limits, and the war’s few remaining survivors, huddled underground in the dank galleries beneath Chaillot, seek desperately an alternative path to survival – one perhaps that passes through Time. At the expense of madness, death, and unspeakable cruelty, they begin a set of experiments whose purpose will be to launch emissaries, in search of food, medicine and energy, through a hole in Time. A man is chosen for his unique quality of having retained a single clear image from pre-war days; no more than an ambiguous memory fragment from childhood – a visit to the jetty at Orly airport, the troubling glance of an unknown woman, the crumbling body of a dying man. These elements become crucial hinge-points in the ensuing narrative, thickening and accumulating nuance with each successful expedition into the historical past. The image of a woman, increasingly suffused with the time – and eros – bestowing capacities of a deep and impossible love, provides both the kernel for the recovery of the dimension through which humankind and history will be saved, as well as the tragic abyss into which both the hero and the narrative inexorably fall.

Although Chris Marker’s legendary film is no more than 29 minutes long and contains but a single moving image, perhaps no other film has matched its combination of devastating emotional power, former brilliance and philosophical complexity. The story marker tells – a stunning parable of our modern fate – is about the death of the world, about loss, memory, hope, and the indomitable power of love.

“This strange and poetic film, a fusion of science fiction, psychological fable, and photomontage … creates its own conventions from scratch. It triumphantly succeeds where science fiction invariably fails.” – J.G. Ballard.

A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick:

A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick

In celebration of his movies:

Day of the Fight (1951)

Flying Padre (1951)

The Seafarers (1953)

Fear and Desire (1953)

Killer's Kiss (1955)

The Killing (1956)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Spartacus (1960)

Lolita (1962)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

The Shining (1980)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Video created by Jack Kost.

2022.

Music credit:

Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

– Stanley Kubrick.

In memory of Stanley Kubrick

Director

Producer

Writer

Photographer

July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999

Born on this day – Elliott Erwitt:

Elliott Erwitt

Photographer

Director

Cinematographer

July 26, 1928 – November 29, 2023

Credits:

Books:

100+1 Elliott Erwitt (1997); Between the Sexes (1994); Dog Dogs A collection of black and white photographs of dogs Erwitt was intrigued by throughout his world travels (1998); EE 60/60 (2002); Elliot Erwitt's Scotland (2018); Elliott Erwitt Personal Best (2010); Elliott Erwitt XXL – Special and Collectors Edition (2012); Elliott Erwitt, Sequentially Yours (2011); Elliott Erwitt: The Private Experience / Series: Masters of Contemporary Photography (1974); Elliott Erwitt's Handbook (2002); Elliott Erwitt's Kolor Kempen, Germany: teNeues (2013); Elliott Erwitt's New York (2009); Elliott Erwitt's Rome (2009); Found, Not Lost (2021); Museum Watching (1999); Observations on American Architecture (1972); On the Beach (1991); Personal Exposures (1988); Photographs and Anti-Photographs (1972); Pittsburgh 1950 (20117); Recent Developments (1978); Snaps. London & New York: Phaidon (2001); Son of Bitch, photographs of dogs (1974); The Angel Tree (1993); The Art of Andre S. Solidor aka Elliott Erwitt (2010); To The Dogs (1992); Woof (2005).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1974); 3 x Magnum (2006); 4 Little Girls (1997); A Sense of Loss (1972); American Masters (2005–2006); Arte Journal (2023); Arthur Penn: The Director (1970); Articulate with Jim Cotter (2019); At Home with Elliott Erwitt (2013); Beautiful Baby, Beautiful (1980); Beauty Knows No Pain (1972); Cinéma cinémas (1989); Copyright by Inge Morath (1992); Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe (2022); Elliott Erwitt: I Bark at Dogs (2011); Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good (2019); Everybody Street (2013); Fearful Symmetry (1998); Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (2009); Gimme Shelter (1970); Great Performances (2002); Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003); Incontournables: Les grandes expositions de 2010 (2010); Le cinéma dans l'oeil de Magnum (2017); L'invité (2006); Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016); Paper Lion (1968); The Great Pleasure Hunt: Japan (1986); The Memory of Justice (1976); The Misfits (1961); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013); The Unwed Mother (1964); Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2008); Un jour, un destin (2011); Un voyageur (2013).

Born on this day – Birt Acres:

Birt Acres

Photographer

Director

Cinematographer

Producer

July 23, 1854 – December 27, 1918

Born on this day – Gina Lollobrigida:

Gina Lollobrigida

Actress

Photographer

Artist

July 4, 1927 – January 16, 2023

Born on this day – Audrey Flack:

Audrey Flack

Visual artist

Painter

Printmaker

Sculptor

Photographer

Writer

May 30, 1931 – June 28, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Art & Soul: Notes on Creating (1986); Audrey Flack: On Painting (1981); Audrey Flack: The Daily Muse (1989); Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective 1950–1990 (1992); Louisa Ignacia Roldan (1978); On Carlo Crivelli / Art Magazine 55 (1981); The Haunting Images of Louisa Roldan (1979); With Darkness Comes Stars: Audrey Flack, a Memoir (2024).

Television:

Amy & Monte: A Legacy of Love and Creativity (2024); Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack (2019).

Born on this day – Agnès Varda:

Agnès Varda

Director

Writer

Photographer

Artist

May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019

Born on this day – Dorothea Lange:

Dorothea Lange

Photographer

May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965