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Vivid images and words on Marilyn Monroe
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe suite at the Hotel Bel-Air where Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe for her famous "Last Sitting" in 1962 no longer exists. It is now part of the elegant La Prairie Spa — rather apropos, as the often difficult star was well known for...Tags: Greta Garbo, Lindsay Lohan, Entertainment Events, Chris Tucker, Penelope Ann Miller
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Georgia Carroll Kyser dies at 91; model, actress sang with husband's big band
Georgia Carroll Kyser, a fashion model in the 1930s and '40s who became an actress and a singer with her husband Kay Kyser's big band, died Friday in Chapel Hill, N.C. She was 91.
The cause was not revealed.
Born Nov. 18, 1919, in Blooming Grove, Texas,...Tags: The Spirit (movie), Vocal Music (genre), Elections, Contracts, Neiman Marcus
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Jasper Johns is first studio artist in 34 years to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Culture MonsterObama to confer 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday; arts honorees are Yo-Yo Ma and Jasper Johns, the first visual artist to win since 1977.... -
Richard C. Miller dies at 98; photographed an evolving Los Angeles
As photographer Richard C. Miller documented the construction of the four-level freeway interchange in mid-20th century downtown Los Angeles, he was overwhelmed by its man-made beauty.
"I saw it and just went out of my mind," he later wrote. "I thought,...Tags: James Dean, Travel, Stanford University, University of Southern California, World War II (1939-1945)
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L.A. exhibitions focus on Paul Outerbridge
Paul Outerbridge, one of the great pioneers of color photography, spent the last 15 years of his life in creative decline, moving from the East Coast to Laguna Beach where he opened a small portrait studio and helped his wife manage her fashion business....Tags: Mexico, Arts and Culture, Libraries, Arts, Career and Workplace
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'Vanity Fair Portraits' at LACMA
Times Art CriticFounded in 1856, London's National Portrait Gallery is a place where the people in the pictures, not the pictures themselves, are what count. The museum's website explains: "The National Portrait Gallery was established with the criteria that the...Tags: Graydon Carter, Periodicals, Christopher Hitchens, Arts and Culture, Libraries
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Robert Frank goes from ignored to a national treasure
Looking In
Robert Frank's "The Americans" -- Expanded Edition
Edited and with text
by Sarah Greenough
Steidl: 506 pp., $75 hardcover
He was a foreigner with a camera, a young artist newly arrived on the streets of Manhattan from the Old World,...Tags: Cinema Industry, Allen Ginsberg, Arts, Walker Evans, Robert Frank
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Roy DeCarava dies at 89; art photographer depicted the African American experience
Roy DeCarava, an art photographer whose pictures of everyday life in Harlem helped clarify the African American experience for a wider audience, has died. He was 89.
He died Tuesday in New York City, his daughter Wendy DeCarava said. The cause was not...Tags: Sports Illustrated, Racism, Brooklyn (New York City), ABC (tv network), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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'Dorothea Lange' by Linda Gordon
Dorothea Lange
A Life Beyond Limits
Linda Gordon
W.W. Norton: 536 pp., $35
Our image of the Great Depression has been indelibly shaped by the photographs of Dorothea Lange: homeless men standing dejectedly in line for food at a San Francisco mission,...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Heads of State, Politics, Alcoholic Beverages, Museum of Modern Art
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From Harlow to Clooney: The largest-ever collection of glamour photography goes up for auction
All The RageMad about old Hollywood? Now may be your chance to nab a classic photo from Tinseltown's storied history. Thousands of classic Hollywood glamour photographs from the Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer collection will be auctioned off on March...... -
Beauty, week after week
Special to The TimesGardeners are innate timekeepers who clock hours by the tilt of the sun and days by the life of a bud and flower. Months are marked by the spin of the moon, seasons by the length of day, and years by the girth of once-tiny trees. Despite such acuity,...Tags: Gustav Klimt, Services and Shopping, Calendars, Days, and Months, Greeting Cards, Arts and Culture
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Hot shots: How to start a photography collection
When Jen Bekman opened her New York art gallery almost nine years ago, with the mission of supporting emerging artists and collectors, she "felt the weight of art history of my shoulders," she said, because she didn't know enough. So she gravitated toward...Tags: Artists, Arts and Culture, Arts, Paul Strand, Services and Shopping
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