A jazz visual diary | Photographs by Herman Leonard (1948-1960)
The Metronome All Stars (Eddie Safranski, Billy Bauer, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Lennie Tristano) New York City, 1949 Metronome All-Stars - Overtime (1949) ....
1950s
Love answers / Letter to his teenage son | John Steinbeck, 1958
In November of 1958, John Steinbeck received a letter from his eldest son, Thom, who was attending boarding school. In...
What really knocks me out | J. D. Salinger, 1951
J.D. Salinger . " I read a lot of classical books, like The Return of the Native and all, and...
Book//mark – The Unnamable | Samuel Beckett, 1953
Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable, 1953 Samuel Beckett outside a Parisian café, 1988 "hat’s what I feel, an outside...
On [:] The ring | James Jones, 1951
Karl Hofer: Boxer, 1940 . “One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and...
Days [ ) Cure | Samuel Beckett, 1957
Steve Schapiro Samuel Beckett Looking at Parrot, New York, 1964 . "You're on earth. There's no cure for that." Samuel Beckett, Endgame,...
Flick Review < Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder, 1951
Ace in the Hole AKA The Big Carnival, Billy Wilder (1951) Cinematography: Charles Lang Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert...
Days [ ) Feel | Albert Camus, 1957
Kalman Szollosy, 1935 “They made love in the dark by feel, without seeing each other. Is there another love than...
On [:] The dark | Jean Genet, 1959
Daniel Zender “Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.” Jean Genet, The Blacks, 1959 Also:...
Simple Things on the Beach | Joan Miro, 1931-55
Ernst Schneidegger, Joan Miro collecting flotsam at the beach of Barcelonetta which he used as inspiration for his work, 1955 . "The...