The Book & the Movie: The Third Man | Graham Greene / Carol Reed, 1949
The 3rd Man, 1950 / First Edition Graham Greene, 1904-1991...
1940s
Silver Voices | A poem by Elizabeth Bishop, 1949
Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky, Forest Silhouettes, 1964 “Small and silvery, their voices echoed in the cold countryside.“ Elizabeth Bishop, The Farmer’s Children,...
Actors Relaxing at Home | Bela Lugosi / Cary Grant / James Stewart / Errol Flynn / Humphrey Bogart / Lauren Bacall / Edward G. Robinson / Steve McQueen / Marilyn Monroe / James Dean, 1930s-1960s
James Dean relaxing in his New York City apartment in the early '50s John Swope, Edward G. Robinson relaxing on...
You can Run, but you can’t Hide / The boxer Joe Louis, 1914-81 | Photos by Carl Van Vechten, 1941
Joe Louis, Greenwood Lake, NY, 1941, photo by Carl Van Vechten . 'I was born in a sharecropper's tumbledown shack...
The Inventor of Scrabble | Alfred Mosher Butts, 1899-1993
Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts & promoter James Brunot posed with oversized game, 1953 . Alfred Mosher Butts (1899 – 1993)...
Book//mark – West with the Night | Beryl Markham, 1942
Beryl Markham, West with the Night, 1942 Beryl...
Book//mark – A Voice Through a Cloud | Denton Welch, 1950
Denton Welch, 1915-1948 Denton Welch, A Voice Through a Cloud,...
Days [ ) Chess | Stefan Zweig, 1941
Yvan Attal, Chess Playing, 1928 . “In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for...
Book//mark – A Girl I Knew | J.D. Salinger, 1948
J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew, 1948 ( Good Housekeeping Magazine) . "A few weeks later, in July of 1936,...
Alphabetarion # Fan | Yasunari Kawabata, 1948
Ryan Gander, Prepared for slowness, 2018 . “Her kimono stood out from her neck,and her back and shoulders were like...