The Cannes Film Festival was founded in 1946. The invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès.
Marie Laforêt, Cannes, 1961 via
Sophia Loren at the Cannes Film Festival, 1966 via
Cannes, 1967 via
Jeanne Moreau in Cannes, 1966 via
Natalie Wood, 1962 via
Romy Schneider at Cannes, 1961 via
Princess Grace of Manaco, Cannes 1960 via
Claudia Cardinale, 1963 via
Geraldine Chaplin, 1967 via
Edward Jean Steichen (1879 – 1973) was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator.
Steichen was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz’ groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Together Stieglitz and Steichen opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, which eventually became known as 291 after its address.
His photos of gowns for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 are regarded as the first modern fashion photographs ever published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen was a photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair while also working for many advertising agencies includingJ. Walter Thompson. During these years, Steichen was regarded as the best known and highest paid photographer in the world. In 1944, he directed the war documentary The Fighting Lady, which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary.
After World War II, Steichen was Director of the Department of Photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art until 1962. While at MoMA, he curated and assembled the exhibit The Family of Man, which was seen by nine million people
Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen, 1924 via
Anna Mae Wong by Edward Steichen, 1931 via
Marlene Dietrich by Edward Steichen, 1932 via
Joan Crawford by Edward Steichen via
Lillian Gish by Edward Steichen, 1934 via
Greta Garbo by Edward Steichen, 1928 via
Irving Isadore Lippman (1906 – 2006) was born in Edendale, California to Samuel and Celia Lippman, who emigrated from Russia in the late 1800’s. “Lippy,” as he was affectionately called spent 60 years in the film industry beginning as a sixteen-year old assistant camerman on a silent era comedy directed by Fatty Arbuckle in 1922 for $25 per week.
Lippman held various jobs and titles during his tenure in the business from still photographer and film director to cinematographer. He photographed and caught on film such beauties as Mae West, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Jean Arthur, Claudette Colbert and Barbara Stanwyck
His last service to the industry was as cinematographer on Love Boat in 1982. He died on November 15, 2006 in Woodland Hills, California.
Bette Davis (Photo by Irving Lippman) via
Tallulah Bankhead (Photo by irving lippman) via
Claudette Colbert (Photo By Irving Lippman, 1933) via
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