Friday, July 15, 2011

HOLLYWOOD IS: THE VENTURERS





people make the world go round



Harper's Bazaar January 1963
Richard Avedon






Venturers
toward the unknown…
In Japan, it is believed that with the dawn of the New Year all our slates are wiped clean. The cares, dilemmas and disasters of the past magically fall away, leaving each of us in essence newborn. If this concept enchants, it takes more than enchantment to give it reality. To be a new being, one must dare to crack the hardened crust of custom – even one’s own cherished customs – and confront one’s self and the world with a sense of venture and a mind as open to wonder as a child’s. This issue is devoted to that questing sense – in fashion, in thought, and even in fantasy. The opening pages provide a brief look at a few of those free spirits in the arts and sciences who are, perhaps, the truest venturers toward the unknown. Which of their innovations will prove valid and revelatory remains to be seen. But the direction of man’s future depends in large measure on the vision, courage and applications of explorers.

Harper's Bazaar
January 1963

Dr. Frank Rosenblatt
...and part of the simulated biological nerve net that comprises the first cognitive machine: the perceptron Mark 1 - The first computer that could learn new skills by trial and error, using a neural network that simulates human thought processes.

The multiple face of the unknown, from which the knowledge, the direction and the hope of man' future will in time emerge
Jean Tinguely
Kay Harris


Jean Tinguely
"If you enter a game with the machine, then perhaps you can make a truly joyous machine - by joyous, I mean free."

William Katavolos
and some of the drawings envisioning an organic architecture that the discoveries of modern chemistry made credible

HOW TO RAISE AN EYEBROW
James Moore

How to raise an eyebrow: Reach for the Stars
Richard Avedon


Christina Paolozzi
How to raise an eyebrow: muffle your beauty
Richard Avedon


How to raise an eyebrow after five
Richard Avedon

HOLLYWOOD IS:
Hitchcock chasing Inge Balke in Jane Derby below Psycho house
Jeanloup Sieff



HOLLYWOOD IS
Three graces bent midst the oleander in the garden of William Pereira.
Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS
Sun worship beside Mr. Herbert Cordier's hot-dog-shaped pool
Jantzen - hat by Halston
Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS
Croquet on the grounds of movie producer Samuel Goldwyn and his own club members, Mike Romanoff, Phillip Reed and Cesare Danova. Models in Harrods and Joan Leslie
Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS
The moonshooter, Dr. William Pickering, Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.
De De Johnson
Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS
Aldous Huxley - a towering mind in a land of size, thrust, boom.
Davidow - Adolpho hat
Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS
A movie set with Billy Wilder and Shirley Maclaine
Irma La Douce
Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS
The Old West
Rudi Gernreich
Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS
Corroganville, a training ground for stunt drivers
Pendleton
Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS
Valentino, the dream lover mourned by thousands, his effigy in wax, a symbol to cling to.
Murray Zenkel - Mel Naftal
Jeanloup Sieff

HOLLYWOOD IS
The vigil kept with the departed hero
Travilla
Jeanloup Sieff


Furore on Foot
The Clog - 1963

Furore on Foot
The Clog
Herbert Levine

CARTE BLANCHE FOR TOWN
Adele Simpson - Adolpho Hat
Martin Munkacsi

SOFT FOCUS
Camilla Sparv in Chinchilla by Ben Kahn
Martin Munkacsi

CARTE BLANCH CHIC
Jablow
Melvin Sokolsky

CARTE BLANCHE CHIC
Teal Traina
Melvin Sokolsky

CARTE BLANCHE CHIC
Monte-Sano and Pruzan
Melvin Sokolsky

 
THE FINAL WORD
ONLY SILK IS SILK
Suzy Parker



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