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Photographer Unknown, (Coated with Sand)
“We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood — between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Eagle and Fish)
Photographer Unknown, (Blue Eyes), Photo Shoot
Sal Mineo
Twice nominated for an Academy Award for “Rebel Without a Cause”, and “Exodus”, Sal Mineo was the youngest actor in history to be nominated for an Oscar up until that time for “Rebel.” He won the Golden Globe award for Best Supporting actor in, “Exodus’ and also won the Golden Laurel award for “Exodus.” Sal Mineo was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Single Performance by an actor in 1957, “Studio One in Hollywood: Dino.”
Sal Mineo also had a very prolific and acclaimed stage career on and off Broadway, including starring in and directing and producing the ground breaking off-Broadway production of “Fortune and Men’s eyes.” He also had a short stint as a pop singer, which spawned a huge hit solo album, and 3 major top 40 singles.
Sal Mineo was an artist and visionary. A cultural icon, and also a humanitarian that supported gay rights, but didn’t like to be confined to being labeled, he was open about his sexuality long before most mainstream celebrities chose to be.
Sal Mineo’s brilliant career spans three decades of magnificent work, cut short in 1976 by his tragic murder. Playing the role of a gay burglar in a San Francisco run of the stage comedy ‘P.S. Your Cat Is Dead,’ he received substantial publicity from many positive reviews and moved on to Los Angeles with the play. Arriving home after a rehearsal on February 12, 1976, Mineo was stabbed to death in the alley behind his West Hollywood apartment building. He was stabbed just once, but the blade struck his heart leading to immediate and massive internal bleeding. He died shortly thereafter at the age of 37.
Photographer Unknown, (Bent Torso)
“The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.” – George Berkeley
Richard Guaty’s Photo Shoot of Adam Senn
Photographer Unknown, “Aaron”, Photo Shoot
Photographer Unknown, (Eating Ice Cream)
Photography by Erik Lazarini, Model Unknown
Photographer Unknown, Magic in the Reveal
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
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Reblogged with thanks to http://edyateit.tumblr.com/archive
Photographer Unknown, (Close Scrutiny), Selfie
Mano Martinez Photography: Photo Shoot of Model Abdelilah
Photographer Unknown, (Gray Walls)
Henri Cartier Bresson, “Truman Capote”, 1947
“I am living in a very posh establishment, the Sunset Tower, which, or so the local gentry tell me, is where every scandal that ever happened happened.”
– Truman Capote, age 24, in Los Angeles in 1947 to write an essay on Hollywood for Vogue.
Photographer Unknown, (Black and White Plaid Shirt)
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
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