James Galanos Fashion, Hollywood, California by Gordon Parks
James Galanos Fashion, Hollywood, California 1961 Photography Archival digital pigment print The Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, USA
Model, Gloria Vanderbilt, is photographed modelling a Galanos gown in an office environment. Bright blurred artificial lights and background accentuate the model’s gracious movement through the space as she glides across the picture plane.
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
Gordon Parks Documentary Photography, Photojournalism, Fashion Photography Born: 30 November 1912, Kansas, USA Nationality: American Died: 7 March 2006, New York, USA
Parks was a photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director. He was prominent in American documentary photojournalism from the 1940s to the 1970s and in glamour photography
Bix Beiderbecke Jazz, Blues Born: 10 March 1903, Iowa, USA Nationality: American Died: 6 August 1931, New York, USA
Beiderbecke was a jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer. He was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, noted for his inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone that heralded the jazz ballad style
An Elven-maid there was of old, A shining star by day. Her mantle white was hemmed with gold, Her shoes of silver-grey.
A star was bound upon her brows, A light was on her hair As sun upon the golden boughs In Lorien the fair.
Her hair was long, her limbs were white, And fair she was and free; And in the wind she went as light As leaf of linden-tree.
Beside the falls of Nimrodel, By water clear and cool, Her voice as falling silver fell Into the shining pool.
Where now she wanders none can tell, In sunlight or in shade; For lost of yore was Nimrodel And in the mountains strayed.
The elven-ships in haven grey Beneath the mountain-lee Awaited her for many a day Beside the roaring sea.
A wind by night in Northern lands Arose, and loud it cried, And drove the ship from elven-strands Across the steaming tide.
When dawn came dim the land was lost, The mountains sinking grey Beyond the heaving waves that tossed Their plumes of blinding spray.
Amroth beheld the fading shore Now low beyond the swell, And cursed the faithless ship that bore Him far from Nimrodel.
Of old he was an Elven-king, A lord of tree and glen, When golden were the boughs in spring In fair Lothlorien.
From helm to sea they saw him leap, As arrow from the string, And dive into the water deep, As mew upon the wing.
The wind was in his flowing hair, The foam about him shone; Afar they saw him strong and fair Go riding like a swan.
But from the West has come no word, And on the Hither Shore No tidings Elven-folk have heard Of Amroth evermore
JRR Tolkien Born: 3 January 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa Nationality: English Died: 2 September 1973, Bournemouth, England
Tolkien was a writer and philologist, best known as the author of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” He was also the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Oxford. He and his close friend CS Lewis founded the informal literary group “The Inklings.” Many authors published works of fantasy before Tolkien, however, the great success of both “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” directly led to a resurgence in the genre and Tolkien is often referred to as the father of modern fantasy
I Get Around Album: All Summer Long Date: 1964 Genre: Surf Rock Artist: The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are a rock band formed in California, USA in 1961 with the original lineup consisting of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. The band is known for its vocal harmonies, adolescent-orientated lyrics, and musical ingenuity and are among the most influential acts of their time
In pen and ink, I wrote a list Of all the things they yelled at me And then a list of things that twist In me, they are the same you see For years held in a tightened fist And unable to simply be But now their words have lost their gist All let go so I can be free
From the Back of the Wardrobe 