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The Postcard
A postally unused Natural Colour Series postcard that was published by The Photographic Greeting Card Co. Ltd. of London. The card has a divided back.
Carnaby Street
Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster, Central London. It is home to fashion and lifestyle retailers, including many independent fashion boutiques.
-- Early History of Carnaby Street
Carnaby Street derives its name from Karnaby House, which was built in 1683 to the east. The street was laid out in 1685 or 1686. First appearing in the rate books in 1687, it was almost completely built up by 1690 with small houses.
A market was developed there in the 1820's. In his novel, 'Sybil' (1845), Benjamin Disraeli refers to "A carcase-butcher famous in Carnaby-market".
The area is notable for a cholera outbreak in 1854 leading to an early application of fundamental epidemiological principles to resolve the crisis. John Snow, the physician who recognised that the cases were concentrated near a pump on Broad Street communicated the finding on a map of the area. It led to the pump being locked, and the reduction in cases of cholera was rapid.
-- Carnaby Street in the 20th. Century
In 1934, Amy Ashwood Garvey and Sam Manning opened the Florence Mills Social Club at number 50, a jazz club that became a gathering place for supporters of Pan-Africanism.
The first boutique, His Clothes, was opened by John Stephen in 1957 after his shop in Beak Street burned down, and was followed by other men's fashion retailers, including Gear, Mates, and Ravel.
In 1966, Harry Fox and Henry Moss opened the first women's fashion boutique, Lady Jane, and later rented Foubert's Place to I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet, their first outlet in the area.
Round the corner in Kingly Street, Tommy Roberts opened his gift shop, Kleptomania. He moved to Carnaby Street in 1967 and went on to make fame in King's Road, Chelsea, with his Mr. Freedom shop.
By the 1960's, Carnaby Street was popular with followers of the mod and hippie styles. Many independent fashion designers, such as Mary Quant, Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, along with Lord John, Merc, Take Six, and Irvine Sellars, had premises in the street.
Various underground music bars, such as the Roaring Twenties, opened in the surrounding streets. Bands such as the Small Faces, The Who and The Rolling Stones appeared in the area, to work at the legendary Marquee Club round the corner in Wardour Street, to shop, and to socialise, so it became one of the coolest destinations associated with 1960's Swinging London.
The Carnaby Street contingent of Swinging London stormed into North American and international awareness with the 15th. April 1966 publication of Time magazine's cover story that extolled this street's role:
'Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging
London better than narrow, three-block-long
Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster
of the 'gear' boutiques where the girls and boys
buy each other clothing'.
In October 1973, the Greater London Council pedestrianised the street. A comparison of pedestrian traffic before and after the change revealed that there had been a 30% increase in the number of pedestrians entering the area.
Westminster City Council erected two green plaques, one at 1 Carnaby Street, dedicated to fashion entrepreneur John Stephen, who began the Mod fashion revolution, and another at 52/55 Carnaby Street, dedicated to the Mod pop group the Small Faces and their manager, Don Arden.
-- Carnaby Street in the 21st. Century
To celebrate the memory of Freddie Mercury after the release of Bohemian Rhapsody, the Carnaby Street arch got a rework with Queen's logo being put up until early 2019.
Despite John Stephen closing his final business in 1975 (he died in 2004 aged 70) and the gradual movement to novelty shops with appeal to the ever-increasing tourist trade, the boutique trade founded in Carnaby Street in 1957 by Stephen is still visible through the many shops of that ilk that still exist in the street today.
Although featured in many books about London, the only book published which is exclusively about Carnaby Street and traces the history from the 1600's to 1970 is simply entitled Carnaby Street and was written by Tom Salter in 1970.
-- The Cultural Impact of Carnaby Street
In 1966 Lady Jane, the first ladies' fashion boutique opened, creating a public sensation when they had models getting dressed in the window, bringing Carnaby Street to a standstill. This typified the relaxed sexual attitude the era brought about.
Carnaby Street was satirised by The Kinks in their 1966 hit, "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", which contains the line:
"Everywhere the Carnabetian Army
marches on, each one a dedicated
follower of fashion".
Carnaby Street was mentioned in the 1967 film Smashing Time. One of the songs, "Carnaby Street", features the lyric:
"You'll pay for the gear on display
to appear on the scene
It's no good being mean
They'll have your every bean".
A song by The Jam, "Carnaby Street", was written by bassist Bruce Foxton. It was the B-side of the single "All Around the World".
The season 15 episode of The Simpsons, "The Regina Monologues", features Carnaby Street.
Carnaby Street the Musical opened in 2013. The show is set in the 1960's.
The video game Heavy Rain has a location named Carnaby Corner North.
The Postcard
A postcard published by J. Beagles & Co. of London E.C. The firm of J. Beagles & Co. was started by John Beagles (1844-1909).
The company produced a variety of postcards including an extensive catalogue of celebrity (stage and screen) portrait postcards. After Beagle’s death, the business continued under its original name until it closed in 1939.
The image is a real photograph, and the card was printed in England. The photography was by W. & D. Downey.
The card was posted in Blackpool on Tuesday the 2nd. May 1905 to:
A.L. Owens,
Glyn Tivy,
Cardigan,
South Wales.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Will you please send a
'real photo' actress in
exchange for this, to:
M. Stainsby,
14, Albert Terrace,
Blackpool,
Lancs."
Miss Maude Fealy
Maude Fealy was an American stage and silent film actress whose career survived into the sound era.
-- Maude Fealy - The Early Years
Maude Mary Hawk was born on the 4th. March 1883 in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of James Hawk and actress and acting coach, Margaret Fealy.
Her mother re-married to Rafaello Cavallo, conductor of the Pueblo, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and Fealy lived in Colorado off and on for most of her life.
At the age of three, Maude made her first stage appearance in her mother's 1884 production of 'Faust', and made her Broadway debut in the 1900 production of 'Quo Vadis', again with her mother.
-- Maude Fealy's Acting Career
Fealy toured England with William Gillette in 'Sherlock Holmes' from 1901 to 1902. Between 1902 and 1905, she frequently toured with Sir Henry Irving's company in the United Kingdom, and by 1907 was the star in productions touring the United States.
Fealy appeared in her first silent film in 1911 for Thanhouser Studios, making another 18 between then and 1917, after which she didn't perform in film for another 14 years.
During the summers of 1912 and 1913, she organised and starred with the Fealy-Durkin Company that put on performances at the Casino Theatre at the Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver, and the following year began touring the western half of the U.S.
Fealy had some commercial success as a playwright-performer. She co-wrote 'The Red Cap' with Grant Stewart, a noted New York playwright and performer, which ran at the National Theatre in Chicago in August 1928.
Other plays written or co-written by Fealy include 'At Midnight'.
Maude also co-wrote 'The Promise' with the highly regarded Chicago playwright Alice Gerstenberg.
Throughout her career, Fealy taught acting in many cities where she lived, in the early years with her mother. Maude taught under names which included Maude Fealy Studio of Speech, Fealy School of Stage and Screen Acting, and Fealy School of Dramatic Expression. Maude taught in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Burbank, California; and Denver, Colorado.
By the 1930's, Maude was living in Los Angeles where at the age of 50 she returned to secondary roles in film, including a credited appearance in 'The Ten Commandments' (1956). Later in her career, she wrote and appeared in pageants, programs, and presented lectures for schools and community organisations.
-- The Personal Life of Maude Fealy
In Denver, Colorado, Maude met a drama critic from a local newspaper named Louis Hugo Sherwin (the son of opera singer Amy Sherwin). The two married in secret on the 15th. July 1907 because, as they expected, her domineering mother did not approve. The couple soon separated, and divorced in Denver in 1909.
Fealy then married an actor named James Peter Durkin. He was a silent film director with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company. This marriage ended in divorce for non-support in 1917.
Soon after this Fealy married John Edward Cort. This third marriage ended in a 1923 annulment, and was her last marriage. She bore no children in any of the marriages.
-- The Death of Maude Fealy
Maude was hospitalized with arteriosclerosis for the last two years of her life. Maude died in her sleep at the age of 88 on November 9, 1971, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
Maude was laid to rest in the Abbey of the Psalms Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
-- A Final Thought From Maude Fealy
"I was born in Memphis, Tennessee, though since
my mother married a second time and went to live
in Denver, I've always claimed to be a Western girl.
You know the California girls are famed as the best
actresses. So it's too bad that mamma did not go to
San Francisco instead of Denver. Then I should have
been ever so much greater."
W. & D. Downey
W. & D. Downey were Victorian studio photographers operating in London from the 1860's to the 1910's.
William Downey (14th. July 1829 - 7th. July 1915 in Kensington), who came to be known as the Queen's Photographer, was born in King Street in South Shields, a decade before commercial photography had become a reality.
William was initially a carpenter and boatbuilder, but in 1855 he set up a studio in South Shields with his brother Daniel (1831 - 15th. July 1881), and later established branches in Blyth, Morpeth and Newcastle.
Their first Royal commission was to provide photographs for Queen Victoria of the Hartley Colliery Disaster in January 1862.
In 1863 they opened a studio at 9, Eldon Square in Newcastle, in a building that was demolished in 1973. The same year William set up a studio in the Houses of Parliament and produced portraits of every parliamentarian of the day. The whereabouts of these photographs is unknown to this day.
William opened another studio at 57 & 61 Ebury Street in London in 1872 with Daniel continuing to manage the Newcastle branch.
The London studio enjoyed the patronage of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales, with William taking photos at Balmoral and Frogmore during the 1860's. The first Royal image was of the Princess of Wales at the York Agricultural Show in 1865. The studio also produced the iconic carte-de-visite portrait of the Princess of Wales piggybacking Princess Louise. The studio received a Royal Warrant in 1879.
The green half-penny stamp that was issued in 1911 and 1912 is known as the 'Downey Head'. It features an image of of King George V which was engraved from a photograph by W and D Downey.
Downey used Joseph Swan's carbon process for their best work. In the 1880's Mawson, Swan & Morgan of Newcastle were the world's largest manufacturers of photographic dry plates, the convenience of which made photography a commercial reality. George Eastman spent some time there during the eighties, and afterwards invented the Box Brownie and roll film, ending the monopoly of studios on permanent images.
William Downey's son, William Edward Downey (1855–1908), managed most of the royal sittings during the Edwardian era.
Gladys Cooper, a child photographic model of the time, reminisces about the Downeys in her autobiography:
"I can remember the Downeys quite well – they were father and son. "Old" Downey was a very tall old man with a long white beard, and very red-rimmed eyes. He always wore a long frock-coat with a red ribbon in his buttonhole, and looked a dignified old gentleman, who was quite capable of receiving and greeting Royals with just the right manner of respectful homage.
It was considered a great honour to be photographed by "Old" Downey himself. He never "took" anyone lower than one of the Princesses, or perhaps a duchess now and then, if he felt in the mood. His staff treated him rather like Royalty itself, and, when he rode abroad in his carriage, they would stand round with rugs, cushions, etc., until he waved them aside in lordly fashion.
"Young" Downey (he was always known as "Young" Downey to distinguish him from his father) was a big man – or so he seemed to me then – with a bald head. He was an artist in his work, and used to say that he always knew the best side of anybody's face after one good look at them. He certainly made some fine photographs of the famous beauties of his time, and possessed the art of retaining character in the face of his sitter. I used to enjoy my visits to the Downey père et fils. "Young" Downey was very fond of children, and my sisters Doris and Grace and I had plenty of fun playing about in the great studio, or dressing ourselves up in the wonderful assortment of garments that he kept there".
William Downey's Personal Life and Death
William senior was married to Lucy, who had been born in Speenhamland, Berkshire in 1843, and they had one son and one daughter. He joined the Photographic Society (later The Royal Photographic Society) in December 1870. The 1891 and 1901 census records show that he was living at 10 Nevern Square, Warwick Road, Earl's Court, Kensington.
Downey's prized silver collection was stolen from his Earl's Court home in November 1914 – the burglary is said to have brought on his death 7 days before his 86th. birthday.
Sidney Skolsky
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 2nd. May 1905 marked the birth of Sidney Skolsky. He was an American writer, best known as a Hollywood gossip columnist.
He ranked with Hedda Hopper (with whom he shared a birthday) and Louella Parsons as the premier Hollywood gossip columnists of the first three decades of the sound picture era.
A radio personality in addition to having his own syndicated newspaper column, Skolsky was also a screenwriter and movie producer who occasionally acted on the radio and in the movies. Skolsky claimed to be the person who gave the nickname 'Oscar' to the Academy Award and was credited for the introduction of the use of the word 'beefcake'.
Biography of Sidney Skolsky
Skolsky was born in NYC to a Jewish family, the son of dry goods store proprietor Louis Skolsky and his wife Mildred. He studied journalism at New York University before becoming a Broadway press agent.
When he became the New York Daily News gossip columnist in 1928, the 23-year-old Skolsky was the youngest Broadway gossip columnist plying his trade on the Great White Way. He also had a Sunday column, 'Tintypes', profiles of actors, directors and other production personnel and Hollywood creative types, that continued in print for 52 years, until a couple years before his death.
Sidney moved to Hollywood in 1933, where he moonlighted as a story editor for Darryl F. Zanuck's Twentieth Century Pictures. He also had a regular column in Photoplay, the country's premiere movie magazine. His column was bylined 'From a Stool at Schwab’s', the Hollywood drugstore he made famous.
He helped promulgate the myth that Lana Turner had been discovered at Schwab's, when it actually had been another Sunset Boulevard establishment, The Top Hat Cafe, which was closer to Lana's alma mater, Hollywood High.
He helped champion, and was very close to Marilyn Monroe, supporting her during her divorce from Joe DiMaggio.
In 1946, Sidney became a movie producer with 'The Jolson Story' (1946), which was nominated for several Academy Awards. He followed it up with 1953 bio 'The Eddie Cantor Story'.
Starting in 1954, KABC-TV Los Angeles featured him in his own TV show, 'Sidney Skolsky’s Hollywood'. He wrote five books about Hollywood and the movies, including a 1975 autobiography, 'Don’t Get Me Wrong, I Love Hollywood'.
The Death and Legacy of Sidney Skolsky
Skolsky died on the 3rd. May 1983 from complications due to Parkinson's disease and atherosclerosis. He had been married for 54 years to Estelle Lorenz, with whom he had had two daughters.
Sidney's writings are part of the permanent collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library.
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My Photo was used by Popular Photography" magazine in their Feb. 2007 issue in the article "The Right Lens for the Job". The article appears on page 72 and in the table of contents.
This is my first time really being published, so I'm kinda happy about it. Popular Photography is the biggest photography magazine in the world.
NOTE: From this photo it could appear that this photo was taken with a Tokina 12-24mm f/4 lens (which is a fine lens), but it in fact was taken with my Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 EF-S lens, which is noted next to the photo of the Tokina.
©2010, FUSINA Dominik
Publishing date : 25/12/2010
Location : Villefranche (France)
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Je suis un King en train de rêver
En ce jour de Noël, juste avant de passer à table en compagnie de la famille, j'ai remarqué un ronflement singulier. Le "King Charles" de ma belle sœur s'était assoupi non loin de là, dans un recoin de mon salon. Disons plutôt qu'il faisait semblant, ouvrant parfois un oeil, comme pour bien montrer qu'on ne pourra faire quoi que ce soit sans qu'il le sache.
Je ne pense pas qu'il soit possible d'imaginer un seul instant ce à quoi il rêve ou pense. Toutefois, en extrapolant un peu et sachant qu'il est issu d'une longue lignée de chiens de race de sang royal (enfin, on se doit de le penser vu le pedigree, son nom et surtout son prix), on peut éventuellement se risquer à quelques conjectures. Il doit se demander ce qu'il fiche là, où est passé son trône, son royaume, ses sujets. Il croit désespérément que "Charles" est son vrai prénom, ce qui explique pourquoi'il s'évertue à ne pas vouloir répondre à celui de "Cidou". Il est également convaincu que chaque humain à son double sans s'imaginer que ce sont ses yeux globuleux qui lui font défaut. Enfin, il dément toute affirmation concernant ses ronflements intempestifs. Il prétend qu'un chien de la Royauté ne ronfle pas ni ne pète ! Pourtant tout le monde sait que la monar... chie.
Mais enfin ! Quelqu'un osera-t'il lui dire la vérité ? Cidou, tu n'es qu'un simple chien.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres at 13:15pm on Tuesday 10th October 2023 off the Mall and Horse Guards Road within the grounds of St James's Park in Central London, one of the Royal parks of London situated in South West London.
This is a pair of Great White Pelicans (Pelecanus Onocrotalus), of which there are six beautiful individuals now residing in St James's Park. Weighing in at roughly 11kgs, they have wingspans of up to three metres and a six foot body length. They are also known as the Eastern white pelican, Rosy Pelican or White Pelican and are found mostly in Southeastern Europe, Asia and the African swamps and lakes.
First introduced to St James's Park in 1664 as a gift from the Russian Ambassador, over 40 pelicans have since made the park home.
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I don't usually post photos from newspaper assignments before they're published, but I wasn't on assignment today. I was shootin' for me.
While speaking with the newspaper this afternoon about an assignment I have tomorrow evening, I mentioned I attended this Turtle Independence Day event and offered to submit a couple for publication. Because of all sorts of other events happening on the island today, this photo may not run because of lack of space.
So I decided to share it with all my Flickr Friends this afternoon/evening/morning, depending on which part of the planet they may be.
Of all the photos I've ever taken, I think this is probably my all-time favorite because of all the joyful smiles I was lucky enough to capture in this single image.
I hope you enjoy it, too.
My byline follows...EDIT July 5, 2008: This photo appears in this morning's West Hawaii Today newspaper.
BILL ADAMS | SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY
Hundreds of spectators look on as the first of five honu splashed its way into the wilds of the Pacific ocean during the Turtle Independence Day festivities held Friday morning at the Mauna Lani Resort on the Kohala Coast.
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Opening-act dei Duran Duran, il 12 giugno 2016, nell’ambito del Street Music Art all’Assago Summer Arena a Milano, le Bloom Twins.
Bloom Twins are a Ukrainian-born English pop music group made up of twin sisters Anna and Sonia Kuprienko. They refer to the style of their music as "dark pop." The girls released their first digital single in June 2013 and are currently producing an EP due in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Sister act Bloom Twins merge several genres, adding flute, harmonica, piano and electronica to a diverse vocal style to create something new, fresh and unique.
After uploading their debut track ‘Fahrenheit’ to You Tube in 2013, Bloom Twins made a double impact on both music and fashion, opening the door to numerous profile pieces in magazines such as Paradigm, Vogue and ID. Soon after, a support slot for Eels at O2 Academy in Liverpool was followed by Iggy’s artist of the week at MTV. 2014 saw numerous releases and videos bringing more attention. Following the release of “Get up, Stand up” the Bloom Twins were featured on BBC NewsNight with Jeremy Paxman and graced pages of broadsheet newspapers such as The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail as well appeared on Simon Lederman's show on BBC Radio London 94.9, Gary Crowley’s and on BBC Introducing.
A period out of the country halted momentum before they made a breakthrough appearance in Unicef’s Imagine campaign alongside Katy Perry and Will.i.am among other heavyweights of music and media.
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This is a shot from 2011, I'm posting it because it was recently published in "Our State" magazine. That's a North Carolina magazine that focuses on all things concerning North Carolina. My thanks to Our State for publishing one of my shots.
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Vandaag ontving ik per post mijn presentexemplaar van Heel Nederland een gids, geschreven door Rik Zaal.
Toen mij gevraagd werd of men deze foto mocht gebruiken en daar geen geld voor wilden neertellen maar me wel een presentexemplaar toezegde ben ik akkoord gegaan. Ik had toen nog geen idee van de omvang van dit boek en het PR plan eromheen (presentatie bij Pauw en Witteman, overal lezingen door Heel Nedereland e.d.)
Ik ben helemaal trots dat hier ook een foto in staat die ik gemaakt heb. Zoals jullie zien heeft de foto een prominente plaats gekregen en is de naamsvermelding direct onder de foto geplaatst.
Het boekwerk bestaat uit twee delen van elk ongeveer 650 pagina's dik.
Kost tot 1 januari 59,95, daarna 69,95.
Note: this photo was published in an undated (Mar 26, 2011) Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "10024."
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What a difference a year makes: on the first day of spring in 2010, I noted (in this Flickr set that "all 8 million New Yorkers were ready to take advantage of [spring]. The sun was out, the temperature was in the 70s, the sky was blue, and the clouds had disappeared to some other part of the country. There was no way a sane person could stay indoors..."
This year, spring arrived about 6 hours earlier (1:32 PM, as compared to last year's 7:21 PM), and while the sun was out, the temperature was in the low 40s rather than the 70s. Like last year, I decided to celebrate the arrival of spring by walking in Riverside Park, and began my usual stroll at the entrance on 72nd Street. I walked a couple blocks south, to the newly-constructed pier that juts halfway out into the Hudson River (or so it seems, anyway), and saw that the outdoor cafe at the base of the pier, where one can usually find a tasty hamburger and a cold beer, was still completely shut down. So I began walking north -- eventually past the 79th Street boat basin, where the Boat Basin Cafe (which you can see more about in this Flickr set ) was open, though protected by gas heaters and wind baffles.
Like last year, there was bright sunshine, blue skies, and no wind -- so people were indeed outside. But because the temperature was about 30 degrees colder, there weren't any picnics and there wasn't any sunbathing. Instead of finding people sprawled out on park benches, enjoying the Sunday newspaper in the sunshine, about the only activities I noticed were bicycling, jogging, brisk walking, and skating.
I was frustrated by the lack of the usual springtime "photo-ops," but then remembered the old adage: if life hands you lemons, then make lemonade. Since there was a steady stream of joggers, cyclists, and skaters, I decided that I might as well photograph them. So I situated myself on a bench near a spot where the walkway along the river splits in two directions: you can turn east and pass under the West Side Highway, up some stone steps and into a playground and elevated section of the park at 82nd Street; or you can continue straight along the river, and follow a newly-constructed narrow two-bike-lane path that connects the "lower" section of Riverside Park (i.e., below 82nd Street) with the "upper" section (starting at roughly 94th Street).
People were coming and going in all directions, so I situated myself with the sun behind me, facing north towards the George Washington Bridge in the far background, and basically ignored everyone coming up the walkway from behind me. There were plenty of people heading south, with the bright springtime sun shining directly on them, and I sat there for about an hour, until I had collected some 500 images with my new Sony SLT a55 camera ...
At that point, I decided I had gotten enough, so I strolled over to Broadway, and took a bus uptown to my own neighborhood. Only a few of the images that I uploaded to my computer were complete disasters -- e.g., out of focus, or missing a head, arm or leg because the subjects were moving so quickly past me. But I had to reject quite a few because they were a little too ordinary ... i.e., your reaction would have been something like, "Oh. There's a guy on a bike. Just like the last guy on a bike, and the one before that." So I ended up with about 70 "keepers" that I felt were sufficiently interesting to warrant uploading to Flickr.
And so that's it for Riverside Park in March, at least this year. Indeed, I may well wait until May before returning -- by which time I hope it will be warm enough that I'll see the sights and scenes that I more commonly associate with springtime in New York City.
One of my photos was selected to be published in a French Photography magazine: "Le monde de la photo.com".
I'm so proud and honoured... wow !
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by The Promenade Studio, Whitley Bay. The card, which has a divided back, has been hand-stamped with the date 25 Jul 1930. This day was in fact a Friday.
Annie Ross
So what else happened on the day that the card was hand-stamped?
Well, the 25th. July 1930 marked the birth in Surrey of Annie Ross.
Born Annabelle McCauley Allan Short, Annie was a British-American singer and actress who was active between 1937 and 2020.
Known professionally as Annie Ross, she was best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
Annie Ross - The Early Years
Annie Ross was born in Surrey, England, the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians John "Jack" Short and Mary Dalziel Short (née Allan).
Her brother was Scottish entertainer and theatre producer and director Jimmy Logan. She first appeared on stage at age three. At the age of four, she travelled to New York by ship with her family; she later recalled that:
"We got the cheapest ticket, which
was right in the bowels of the ship".
Shortly after arriving in New York, she won a token contract with MGM through a children's radio contest run by Paul Whiteman. She subsequently moved with her aunt, Scottish-American singer and actress Ella Logan, to Los Angeles, and her mother, father and brother returned to Scotland.
Annie did not see her parents again until fourteen years later. At the age of seven, she sang "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" in Our Gang Follies of 1938, and played Judy Garland's character's sister in Presenting Lily Mars (1943).
At the age of 14, Annie wrote the song "Let's Fly", which won a songwriting contest and was recorded by Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers.
At the end of 10th. grade, she left school, changed her name to Annie Ross, and went to Europe, where she established her singing career. Annie changed her surname to Ross during the plane trip to Prestwick; in a 2011 interview, she said:
"My aunt was very fanciful, and she
said I had an Irish grandmother called
Ross, so that's where that surname
came from".
Annie Ross's Career
In 1952, Ross met Prestige Records owner Bob Weinstock, who asked her to write lyrics to a jazz solo in a similar way to King Pleasure, a practice that would later be known as vocalese. The next day, she presented him with "Twisted", a treatment of saxophonist Wardell Gray's 1949 composition of the same name, a classic example of the genre.
The song, first released in 1952, was an underground hit, and resulted in her winning Down Beat magazine's New Star award.
In February 1956, the British music magazine NME reported that Ross's version of the song "I Want You to Be My Baby" was banned by the BBC due to the lyric "Come upstairs and have some loving".
Annie recorded seven albums with Lambert, Hendricks & Ross between 1957 and 1962. Their first, Sing a Song of Basie (1957), was to have been performed by a group of singers hired by Jon Hendricks and Dave Lambert with Ross brought in only as vocal consultant.
However it was decided that the trio should attempt to record the material and overdub all the additional vocals themselves, but the first two tracks were recorded and deemed unsatisfactory, so they ditched the dubbing idea.
The resulting album was a success, and the trio became an international hit. Over the next five years, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross toured the world, and recorded such albums as The Hottest New Group in Jazz (1959), Sing Ellington (1960), High Flying (1962), and The Real Ambassadors (1962), written by Dave Brubeck and featuring Louis Armstrong and Carmen McRae.
Ross left the group in 1962, and in 1964 opened a nightclub in London. Annie's Room hosted Joe Williams, Nina Simone, Stuff Smith, Blossom Dearie, Anita O'Day, Jon Hendricks, and Erroll Garner.
Her adulthood film roles included Liza in the film Straight On till Morning (1972), Claire in Alfie Darling (1976), Diana Sharman in Funny Money (1983), Vera Webster in Superman III (1983), Mrs. Hazeltine in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Rose Brooks in Witchery (1988), Loretta Cresswood in Pump Up the Volume (1990), Tess Trainer in Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), and Lydia in Blue Sky (1994).
Annie also appeared as Granny Ruth in the horror films Basket Case 2 (1990) and Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991). She also had a bit part in Robert Altman's The Player in 1992. Ross also starred in Scottish Television's comedy-drama Charles Endell Esquire (1979).
Annie provided the speaking voice for Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man (1973), and Ingrid Thulin's singing voice in Salon Kitty (1976). On stage, she appeared in Cranks (1955; London and New York City), The Threepenny Opera (1972), The Seven Deadly Sins (1973) at the Royal Opera House, Kennedy's Children (1975) at the Arts Theatre, London, Side by Side by Sondheim, and in the Joe Papp production of The Pirates of Penzance (1982).
Annie Ross's Personal Life
In 1949, Ross had a brief affair with drummer Kenny Clarke. This affair produced a son, Kenny Clarke Jr. (born 1950), who was raised by Clarke's brother and his wife.
During her time with Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Annie became addicted to heroin. In the late 1950's she had an affair with the comedian Lenny Bruce, who was also having drug problems. By 1960, Carol Sloane was substituting for her on tour. After a performance by the trio in London in May 1962, she remained in London to confront her drug addiction.
In 1963, she married actor Sean Lynch; they divorced in 1975, and he died in a car crash soon afterwards. By that time, she had also lost her home, and declared bankruptcy.
Annie became a United States citizen in 2001.
Annie died in New York City on the 21st. July 2020 from emphysema and heart disease, four days before her 90th. birthday.
Annie Ross's Awards and Honours
Ross received the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame award (2009), the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters' Award (2010), and the MAC Award for Lifetime Achievement (2011).
In July 2006 a one-woman play entitled Twisted: The Annie Ross Story by Brian McGeachan premiered at The Space Theatre in London, starring Verity Quade. It focused on Annie's stormy relationship with her aunt, Broadway legend Ella Logan, her brief affair with the comedian Lenny Bruce and her addiction to heroin. The play transferred to the Brockley Jack Theatre in London that same year, with Ross being played by Betsy Pennington.
A documentary about Ross's life, entitled No One But Me, premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival in 2012.
66 730 'Whitemoor' awaits the road with the 4M21 service to Hams Hall.
Published in 'Port of Felixstowe yearbook 2013'
Get your copy in a Belgian comic store or (if you want a drawing in it) via me - send me a message! €12 (+shipping)
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I invite y'all to celebrate this with me, at the festival (I'll smuggle some cava in there!)
cheers!
Picture Post was a prominent photo journalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom. It is considered a pioneering example of photo journalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,600,000 copies a week after only 6 months. Picked this Picture Post up in Guernsey this year for £1.50 in the German Underground Occupation Musuem of all places, also picked up an original local Guernsey paper The Star dated August 2nd 1940, when the Island had just been occupied, I have yet to scan this.
Two of my photos of Dundee are featured in the July issue of Russian travel magazine 'Afisha Mir', along with a number of other fellow flickr folk in an article on Scotland. Instead of payment, I asked for a Russian football top of their choice (got Spartak Moscow, who co-incidentally face Celtic this week in the Champions League qualifiers) which I received today along with a copy of the magazine.
Published theme Smiling (to the) world
www.photologio.gr/photo-travelers/smiling-to-the-world/
September 2021
Taken on 01 March 2014 in Angola near Vatuco Cacula (DSC_0213)
freewheely.com: Cycling Africa beyond mountains and deserts until Cape Town
Note: this photo was published in an Oct 11, 2010 Celebrity Daydreaming blog, with the same title as the caption that I put on this Flickr page. It was also published in an Oct 20, 2012 blog titled "What Is Long Term Really?"
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Let me begin with a disclaimer: I do not dance the tango, and I know little or nothing about its history, its folklore, or even its steps and rhythms. I'm vaguely aware that it originated in Argentina (and Uruguay) in the 1890s, that a new style known as "tango nuevo" began to emerge in the late 1990s, and that various actors and actresses -- including Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger(!), among others -- have performed the tango in various movies. But beyond that, it never really occurred to me that it played any significant role here in the U.S.
That is, not until the summer of 2009, when I happened to return to my hotel, on a business trip to Washington, DC, just as a local gathering of tango aficionados was dancing to their music in a nearby square known as Freedom Plaza. I photographed the event (see my Flickr set Last tango in Washington) and learned from one of the participants that there were similar informal events in New York City, at the South Street seaport, during the summer and fall weekends. When I got back to New York, I searched on the Internet, and found a schedule of upcoming tango events just as my Washington acquaintance had indicated; but travel schedules, inclement weather, and other distractions prevented me from actually attending any of them; by the end of the autumn season, I had forgotten all about it.
For some reason, something reminded me of the tango again this spring -- perhaps some music that I overheard, perhaps a scene on some otherwise forgettable television show. In any case, I searched again on the Internet, and discovered that a tango "event" would be taking place on a Sunday afternoon -- but not at the South Street Seaport (on the east side of Manhattan, near the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges), but rather at Pier 45, where Christopher Street runs into the Hudson River in Greenwich Village. The event was scheduled to take place between 3:30 and 7:30 PM, and another quick search on the Internet informed me that sunset would occur at 7:30 PM. So I arrived a little before 6 PM, as the sun was beginning to drop down in the western sky, and photographed for a little more than an hour.
I captured some 522 images, of which 75 have survived in this Flickr set. For the majority of the photos, I stood at the end of the pier, with my back to the Hudson River and the sinking sun; the sun broken in and out of clouds on the horizon -- and because I was wearing sunglasses, I didn't fully appreciate the extent of sun-glare that was often striking the faces of the dancers, as well as the shadows where the sun wasn't hitting at all. But I think I recovered most of the inadvertent over-exposure and under-exposure with some post-processing on the computer... I was also able to get some shots facing westward and southward, so that you could see the New Jersey skyline behind the dancers; indeed, there are a couple of shots with the Statue of Liberty and the Verrazano Bridge in the background. (Note to self: come back here at twilight, on a Sunday evening in mid-summer; it could well be even more spectacular.)
Since I have no personal expertise (or even competence) at the dance, there's not much that I can say about what's going on; I have to let the pictures speak for themselves. Though it wasn't universally true, I noticed several occasions where the women were taller than their partners; I gather that that's an advantage when the dancers are twirling and twisting around. Also, I had the distinct impression -- just as was the case in Washington last summer -- that few (if any) of the dancers were "couples" in the traditional sense. Indeed, many of them seemed to be strangers who had met for the first time at this tango event, but who seemed to enjoy the experience of the dance together. And others, from what little I could tell, might have encountered one another at previous tango events -- but had no other interactions or relationship with one another.
In any case, I had photographed everything I could imagine photographing by a little after 7 PM. I put away my camera equipment, walked a few blocks east to Hudson Street to enjoy a delicious dinner at a local restaurant with my wife, and made a note to check the Internet again for future tango events in Central Park and the South Street Seaport. If you'd like to pursue this on your own, check out Richard Lipkin's Guide to Argentine Tango in New York City.