#esther friedman

[legendarytragedynacho]

Iggy Pop by Esther Friedman, 1980, Boston

#iggy pop #esther friedman #music #musician #musica #rock #rock music #singer #rock singer #hard rock #proto punk #punk rock #actor #art rock #post punk

[spilladabalia]

Amazing photos of Iggy Pop taken by his girlfriend Esther Friedman from 1976 – 1982

#esther friedman #iggy pop #photography #1976-1982

[antronaut]

Iggy Pop – The Passenger 

#Iggy Pop #Esther Friedman #Paul McAlpine #Simon Taylor #theater

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

#iggy pop #esther friedman #berlin

[slack-wise]

Iggy Pop by Esther Friedman

#Esther Friedman #Iggy Pop #musicians #pink

[eddysocs]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel OC Masterlist

Name: Ava Shapiro

Face Claim: Barbra Streisand

Love Interest: Rose Weissman

Fic Title: We'll Always Have Paris

Plot Summary: An art student at Columbia University, Ava is prepared to graduate and possibly get a job in teaching somewhere far enough from home that she won’t be constantly pestered by her parents to give up the idea of a career and marry the nice boy she grew up with. But when Rose Weissman comes to the university to audit classes, she winds up in her life drawing course and for Ava it’s love at first sight, or the closest thing she’s ever felt to it. She’ll have a lot of obstacles to overcome in order to win over Rose, but she’s nothing if not determined.

Name: Dottie Friedman

Face Claim: Rose Williams

Love Interests: Susie Myerson, Midge Maisel

Fic Title: Funny Girls

Plot Summary: During her number at The Wolford Dottie starts flirting with Susie in the audience, not realizing, under the cover of darkness, that Susie isn’t actually a man. While Susie doesn’t love having Midge at that club, she sees nice, sweet Dottie as one of the perks of the gig. After their misunderstanding, Dottie doesn’t stop her flirting, so why not take the girl up on it? But ultimately, Susie can’t bring herself to go through with it. Dottie still stays, as a friend, then becomes thoroughly entangled in Susie's and Midge's lives until both women don’t know what they’d do without her.

Name: Esther Goldbaum

Face Claim: Alba Baptista

Love Interest: Sophie Lennon

Fic Title: Sophie's Choice

Plot Summary: As a little girl, Esther Goldbaum was fascinated with Sophie Lennon and begged her parents to take her to her shows any time she was around. Though they didn’t quite understand why their daughter cherished her so much, they indulged her whenever they could. Flash forward to Esther, now twenty five, unmarried and unsure where her life is going. Something's got to give, right? She’s going to figure out what’s next for her, but not until after she sees Sophie Lennon on stage one more time. Eager to meet her after the show, she fakes being Sophie's new assistant (the real one never showed) and she’s thrown headfirst into Sophie Lennon's world, which was entirely not how she expected it to be. They say never meet your heroes, but maybe Sophie isn’t all that bad under it all.

#the marvelous mrs maisel oc #oc: ava shapiro #oc: dottie friedman #oc: esther goldbaum

[punkrockhistory]

Iggy Pop with his then longtime girlfriend and photographer Esther Friedman, Berlin 1977

#punk #punks #punkrock #iggypop #estherfriedman #history #punkrockhistory

[elektroblues]

Malaria! in cross-pullovers made by Claudia Skoda for their concert tour in 1982/83. Photo by Esther Friedman. [X]

#malaria! #manon p. duursma #gudrun gut #bettina köster #christine hahn #susanne kuhnke #unfortunately cannot find a better copy nor credits but i gasped so loud when i saw this so. Them. #literally why are they all hot this is insane #the outfits #the poses #the leather!!!!! #gudrun's hair!!!!!!!!

[johnnythehorsepart2]

Iggy Pop, Berlin, 1977. Photo by Esther Friedman

[veronicabacardi]

Iggy Pop, Berlin, 1977. Photo by Esther Friedman

🖤

#iggy pop #iguana #music #musicians #photografy #punk rock #icons #rockstar #rock

[adreciclarte4]

Iggy Pop & Esther Friedman, 1977

[mosertone]

Iggy Pop, Berlin, 1978. Photo © Esther Friedman

[mrb33]

A Mooch in Mayfair

Walking through Burlington Arcade to get to Cork Street the Lalique Boutique display catches my eye. 

 James Turrell designs!  Wow!  

(I'm told they range in price from £21,000 to £36,000).

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Picture This

Photorealism 1966 -1985 at Waddington Custot

Robert Betchie - '62 Chevy (1970)

Don Eddy - Private Parking III (1971)

From the Press Release:  Don Eddy said in an interview in 1972: “It raises the question of whether you are looking at an illusion of objects in space, or a representation of a flat piece of paper – a photograph – which is in turn a representation of things in space. The idea of being photographic or true to life doesn’t really interest me. It's the references between what we know, what we see, what we think we see and what’s there, between the surface of the canvas and the illusion in the canvas. Those are the real problems it seems to me.”

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Tom Howse 

at Gallerie Opdahl (Frieze 9 Cork Street)

Press Release:

Tom Howse, b. 1988 in Chester, UK.  Lives and works in London, UK.

With paintings as his medium, Tom Howse explores the borders between the real and the imaginary. Through visual confabulations of myths and folklore, the absurd and the known, Howse questions our seek for understanding. Derived from a need embedded across time, borders, and cultures, he investigates the desire for comprehension as it moves in and out of our consciousness. In his own quest, Howse works with figurative imagery where people, animals, and fables interact in familiar and unfamiliar environments. As scenes unfold through the window of a dining room, a swamp of prehistoric dimensions, or a cultivated landscape, Howse begins to distort and reconfigure the proposed logic of our expectations. By twisting the proportions, perspectives, and dimensions of the depicted, the known is extended into the realm of fantasy. Anchored in the principles of our accustomed line of thought, the unfolding narratives present the observer with an alternate space where the margins between the real and the imaginary begin to dissolve.

Tom Howse - P.I.G.E.O.N  2023

Tom Howse - And I am returned to the splendour and warmth of your love (2023) (Detail)

Tom Howse - The Ripple of your Memory Coruscate Across The Endless immensities of Solitude 2023 (Detail)

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IF IT CONCERNS US, IT CONCERNS YOU

Alfredo Jaar at Goodman Gallery

Installation artist/interventionist.

Searching for Africa in Life 1996/2022

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The Arrangement of Stars 

Sky Glabush -  at Stephen Friedman Gallery

From The Press release: Glabush’s practice subverts traditional painterly archetypes and presents landscape, still life and portraiture through an historic lens. Primarily figurative and often underpinned by abstraction, these large-scale, surreal paintings provide narratives as they shift in and out of focus. 

The artist uses a rigorous drawing practice and his paintings exist as a meeting point for different ideas

and approaches. “The architecture of the drawing is embedded in the materials,” Glabush says, “All the paintings have gone through this process of getting the structure up through the drawing, breaking it down and rebuilding it through colour.” The artist often mixes sand into paint to build texture and to erase but not conceal the labour in his work. This rich surface is a magnet on which bold pigments vibrate and infuse the artist’s works with a humming energy.

Estuary 2023 Gash-Gold-Vermillion 2023 

If the wild Bird could Speak 2023

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Where Two Rivers Meet

Dr. Esther Mahlangu -  at Almine Rech Gallery

From The Press release: Art was a calling from a very young age for the artist. Even when Mahlangu was too young to be painting walls — the exclusive privilege of married Ndebele women — she defied traditions and was eventually granted the freedom to continue. “At ten years old, she used to watch her mother and grandmother painting their house. Longing to join them, when they took a break from painting, she would try her luck without their knowledge. But when they returned, they scolded her telling her never to do that again as her lines were skewed. ‘Every single afternoon when they went to have a nap, I’d try to paint. I got into trouble every day until eventually they realized that in my heart I wanted to paint.’ Gradually her mother and grandmother granted her a small space at the back of the house to paint, with daily inspections, and as her artwork improved, she was allowed to paint the front of the house.”

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Episodes Far from Home

Tomokazu Matsuyama -  at Almine Rech Gallery

From The Press release: Colourful motifs crowd the dense, graphical surfaces of his works, forming garden vistas or intimate boudoirs. Their origins are eclectic: a luscious floral might be drawn from a print by 19th century British designer William Morris or from an Edo Period kimono. In a bed of plants from divergent climes, an empty Sapporo bottle and a Starburst wrapper lie like the detritus of globalisation. A portrait inspired by a photograph of French couturier Christian Dior, meanwhile, bears the golden flourishes of a counterfeit Hermes scarf that Matsuyama bought in New York’s garment district. Completed on dynamically shaped canvases, these paintings take their compositional cues from Grand Manner portraits or pastorals in the pre-modern European tradition, while their use of skewed perspectives and absence of shading recall the flat planes of Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e. Signifiers of East and West are willfully scrambled here, as are renditions of the ‘real’ and the ‘fake.’ In Matsuyama’s work, as with his own diasporic identity, such differences are shaky social constructions.

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Photographs

Phillips –  (London Auction 19 May 2023)

Mert and Marcus - Missy Running 2005  Phillips 19 May 2023

Phillips Ellen von Unworth - Your Turn, Rihanna (detail)2009

Phillips Irving Penn - Steinberg and nose mask, New York 1966

Rala Choi - A woman lying on the sofa 2018

#mayfair

[byneddiedingo]

George Clooney in Hail, Caesar! (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2016)

Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum, Frances McDormand, Jonah Hill. Screenplay: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. Cinematography: Roger Deakins. Production design: Jess Gonchor. Film editing: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. Music: Carter Burwell.

With Hail, Caesar! Joel and Ethan Coen return to Old Hollywood, the scene of one of their earliest films, the dark horror-comedy Barton Fink (1991), this time to give us what appears to be a cotton-candy fantasia on movie genres. But Hail, Caesar! in its sly way it reveals the grip that Hollywood myth and history have on our imaginations, using parodies of Hollywood genre films not just to send up their absurdities but also to show how deeply they color our dreams. At the same time, it explores Hollywood history -- the hold the old studios had on actors' lives, the role of publicity and gossip in creating and destroying stars, the interaction with politics during the Red Scare of the late '40s and '50s -- and combines it with the parody sequences to create a movie that turns out to be a parody of movies about The Movies, a genre that includes everything from the many versions of A Star Is Born to Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952) to, well, Barton Fink. The individual parodies -- the biblical epic, the drawing room drama based on a Broadway hit, the singing-cowboy Western, the Esther Williams extravaganza, the sailors-on-a-spree musical -- are all spot on. But it takes a special audacity -- something the Coens have never lacked -- to send up the anti-communist hysteria that led to the HUAC investigation and the blacklist. The Coens do it by treating the paranoid suspicion that left-wingers were undermining the American Way of Life by injecting Marxism into the movies as if it were real. So we have a communist cell made up of writers who kidnap a movie star for ransom, and another star who defects to the Soviets when the writers row him out to a submarine at night. It's a reductio ad absurdum of Cold War hysteria, as brilliantly handled by the Coens as it was by Stanley Kubrick in Dr. Strangelove (1964). The Coens also tease us by dropping the names of real people into the script. Josh Brolin plays a studio production chief and fixer named Eddie Mannix, which is the name of a real-life Hollywood fixer who kept wayward stars out of the headlines, and he reports to a studio executive in New York named Nick Schenck, the name of the president of Loew's, Inc., which owned MGM. One of the members of the communist cell in the film, a professor "down from Stanford," is called Herbert Marcuse (John Bluthal), the name of a Marxist philosopher popular with the New Left of the 1960s. It's a film of wonderful cameos, including George Clooney as the kidnapped star, Scarlett Johansson as the Esther Williams equivalent, Ralph Fiennes as the director Laurence Laurentz, and Channing Tatum emulating Gene Kelly as the singing and dancing sailor. Tilda Swinton plays the film's competing gossip columnists, Thora and Thessaly Thacker, based on the notoriously powerful Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. By making them twins, the Coens seem to have conflated them with the competing advice columnists Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers, née Pauline and Esther Friedman. Hail, Caesar! got a mixed reception from critics and was a box office disappointment, but I think it's ripe for rediscovery.

#Hail Caesar! #Joel Coen #Ethan Coen #George Clooney

[jedivoodoochile]

Iggy Pop, Berlin, 1977. Photo by Esther Friedman.

#iggy pop

[rantsintechnicolor]

i love books; what I read in 2023

The State of Affairs by Esther Perel (everyone who is married/partnered or wants to be should read this book) (also, read it at the tale end of last year, finished it this year)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter by Pearl Cleage

The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman (reading it again, and am again fully transported, incredible book)

Over My Dead Body; Unearthing The Hidden History of America's Cemeteries by Greg Melville (highly recommend)

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware (another reread)

Nimona by ND Stevenson

The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis

Big Friendship by Amitatou Sou and Ann Friedman (e-book via Libby app and my library card)

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

The Wandering by Intam Paramaditha

Hercule Poirot Short Story series by Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volume I, II and III by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (audio book via hoopla and my library card!) (so is this three books? I'll just call it one)

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Egyptomania by Bob Brier, Ph.D.

The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb by Agatha Christie

The Mummy! by Jane C. Loudon (it is extremely amusing to read science fiction written in the Victorian Era, but also infuriating, but also hilarious)

Lot 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle via Antique Freaks and Terrible Book Club podcast (read to me, you glorious queers!)

The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier via Antique Freaks and Terrible Book Club

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens, Volume 1

The Haunted Man & The Ghosts Bargain by Charles Dickens

Straight by Chuck Tingle

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria

BOOKS FROM BEFORE. So, I didn't used to document all my reading so well. These I have read sometime in the five years previous to 2022, and just ran across the title and remembered reading it:

The Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King

#i love books #reading