As a Photographer, Genevieve Naylor came to a kind of prominence during the Second World War with one of those State Department gigs; chronicling life, as it was then lived, by the people of Brazil. Unlike Orson Welles, whose career struck a reef in that part of the world (and largely for the same sponsors), Naylor's work not only landed in New York's Museum of Modern Art (more Beaujolais, please), but it got her some sweet, post-war assignments for just about every slick magazine in that very slick epoch.
This is a sample of that work:
Louis Armstrong
Rosemary Woods
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Frank Fontaine
Jane Fonda
Gordon Parks and Albert Dekker
Althea Gibson
Ed Sullivan
Robert Evans
Betty Comden
Jean-Paul Sartre
Yul Brynner
Burl Ives
Dawn Powell
Jacques Lipschitz
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Huston
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Eve Arden
Paul Bowles
Helen Hayes
Fran Allison
Red Skelton
Evelyn Lincoln
Eddie Condon
8 comments:
Fantastic, Tom! Excellent post!
That Kukla, Fran & Ollie pic just floors me.
As does seeing Yul with hair.
Wow! Evelyn Lincoln and Rosemary Woods, Eddie Condon and Louis Armstrong, Frankie Fontaine and Red Skelton, Cartier-Bresson and Parks... I could go on. You do that on purpose?
More or less . . . :)
My comment disappeared? Not the first time around here, either.
Peter,
I have no explanation for you. We're not moderating comments at this point, so anything that's posted ought to go through. It could be a problem with the Blogger system itself, but that's speculation.
Any event, your comments are always welcome here. Always.
Outstanding!
When did people stop looking, as do these people, like grown-ups?
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