By Kate Phillips
They grocery shop, the clean up after dinner, they shave. Us Weekly did not invent the desire to see famous people doing everyday things. For decades great photographers have been capturing the way “stars are just like us!” with far more interesting results than what we see on the pages of tabloids. Magnum’s archive teems with images of iconic celebrities doing endearingly everyday things. Below, you’ll find eight of the best.
Jane Fonda cooking in her kitchen in France in 1967.
David Hurn/Magnum Photos.
Marilyn Monroe cleans up after dinner during the filming of The Misfits in Hollywood in 1960.
Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos.
Andy Warhol shops at Gristedes supermarket near his 47th street Silver Factory in New York City in 1965.
Bob Adelman/Magnum Photos.
Actress Julie Christie arranges flowers in her London flat in 1965.
David Hurn/Magnum Photos.
American actress Joan Crawford cleans her house...
They grocery shop, the clean up after dinner, they shave. Us Weekly did not invent the desire to see famous people doing everyday things. For decades great photographers have been capturing the way “stars are just like us!” with far more interesting results than what we see on the pages of tabloids. Magnum’s archive teems with images of iconic celebrities doing endearingly everyday things. Below, you’ll find eight of the best.
Jane Fonda cooking in her kitchen in France in 1967.
David Hurn/Magnum Photos.
Marilyn Monroe cleans up after dinner during the filming of The Misfits in Hollywood in 1960.
Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos.
Andy Warhol shops at Gristedes supermarket near his 47th street Silver Factory in New York City in 1965.
Bob Adelman/Magnum Photos.
Actress Julie Christie arranges flowers in her London flat in 1965.
David Hurn/Magnum Photos.
American actress Joan Crawford cleans her house...
- 10/12/2012
- by Mallika Rao
- Huffington Post
This retrospective by the Magnum photographer is an epic chronicle of postwar America
In his short but illuminating introduction to this epic three-volume retrospective of his work, Bruce Davidson recalls the pivotal moments in a career that stretches over 50 years. In 1943, aged 10, in Oak Park, Illinois, he visited a darkroom in his friend's house and was lost "in boyhood wonderment" at the mysterious process he witnessed. He went home and turned a cupboard into a makeshift darkroom.
Soon afterwards, his father bought him a $4 Falcon 127, which he used until, at 15, he was given an "expensive Kodak Medalist camera" by his stepfather, and won the Kodak High School Snapshot contest for his portrait of "a baby owl in a trail-side museum in the woods near our house".
At college in Rochester, Illinois, Davidson met a beautiful girl called Joan, who owned a copy of The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson. "It...
In his short but illuminating introduction to this epic three-volume retrospective of his work, Bruce Davidson recalls the pivotal moments in a career that stretches over 50 years. In 1943, aged 10, in Oak Park, Illinois, he visited a darkroom in his friend's house and was lost "in boyhood wonderment" at the mysterious process he witnessed. He went home and turned a cupboard into a makeshift darkroom.
Soon afterwards, his father bought him a $4 Falcon 127, which he used until, at 15, he was given an "expensive Kodak Medalist camera" by his stepfather, and won the Kodak High School Snapshot contest for his portrait of "a baby owl in a trail-side museum in the woods near our house".
At college in Rochester, Illinois, Davidson met a beautiful girl called Joan, who owned a copy of The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson. "It...
- 6/12/2010
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
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