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Dean Frey

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aka Deny Fear 📷 David Soyer’s photo of “Motif provençal”, Alsatian textile from 1825 Profile pic: Dean in Banff National Park, 1986 "And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling." - Bruce Chatwin

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14s
Frank Horvat 1999 01 02, Cotignac, France, self-portrait at the hairdresser
Horvat in the barber's chair, taking a shot in the mirror with a small digital camera.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2m
I'll continue with this thread of photos from Frank Horvat's 1994 Bestiary series with this shot of two polar bears. I'll add a shot every evening until I run out.
Two polar bears on a rocky shore
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2h
#RIP Eva Marie Saint She hurries to get ready for an audition, in a photo by Cornell Capa for Life, from 1949. A star is born, but after an awful lot of hard work! Love this photo!
Saint, wrapped in a towel, hurries past her roommate, who’s sitting on the couch.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2h
This was Eva Marie Saint's earlier life on television, again documented in Life magazine, this time by Andreas Feininger in 1947. She was nominated for Emmys twice, for a Paddy Chayefsky-penned episode of The Philco Playhouse & a musical version of Our Town, both in 1955.
Saint opens a TV-set front door, as she’s filmed by a WNBT NBC cameraman.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2h
#RIP Eva Marie Saint She goes up to accept her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for On The Waterfront. 📷 Michael Rougier, 1955 Not your usual Oscar shot!
An overwhelmed Saint walks up to accept her award.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2h
Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden & Marlon Brando on the set of On the Waterfront 📷 Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1954 She holds her own with Marlon Brando: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOMo...
Brando, Malden & Saint walk away after chewing scenery in the previous scene.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2h
A Cornell Capa shot of a job-hunting young Eva Marie Saint for a Life magazine feature in 1949. Saint worked in TV & radio until her breakthrough on Broadway: The Trip to Bountiful in 1953. Then, in 1954, her big movie break: On The Waterfront.
The young actress stands in a waiting room, holding her portfolio
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2h
#RIP Eva Marie Saint 📷 Nina Leen, 1949 “She worked comparatively rarely, and it was no credit to Hollywood that only a few films were worthy of her.” - David Thomson Thomson praises her work in All Fall Down, 1962, North by Northwest, 1959, Exodus, 1970 & Loving, 1960.
Saint in her early years, carrying headshots as she waits for an audition.
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 9h
Bringing my drum kit too.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 9h
Thanks!
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JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 10h
#BarnettNewman #BarNotNewman #AccidentalArtist #aofoto #aoFotoCall Under the Stairs at The Lowry Salford
A photo of a brightly coloured wall that is part of a stairway at The Lowry Theatre and Gallery in Salford. 
The top part is painted a glorious bright orange and underneath is a conker like shade of brown. 
17th May 2026 
Samsung phone with slight Snapseed edit
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Necromance Cadaverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 9h
Is she complaining that it's by far her best-known work, or describing what it's about?
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 9h
Sounds like a complaint to me. She’s definitely more than a one-hit wonder.
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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 9h
Same. So very much the same.
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 19h
Carole Lombard by Eugene Robert Richee, 1933. (Thread) #botd
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 9h
Prepare for a lot of drum-beating for Anne Carson on my feed. #NobelPrize
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 9h
i think they were at a screening of the film. Carole’s reaction pretty much mirrored my own.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 9h
#BirdOfTheDay #BirdSupermodel From Frank Horvat's Bestiary, a black swan and pelicans, 1994
Two white pelicans and a black swan pose on a foggy, rocky coastal fashion runway.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Maud Adams, Roger Moore & Britt Ekland in Guy Hamilton's The Man with the Golden Gun 📷 Bob Penn, 1974
Moore as 007, with the skimpily dressed Maud Adams as Andrea & Britt Ekland as Goodnight hanging on to him.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Britt Ekland & Peter Sellers by Lord Snowdon 24 January 1967 The two were married from 1964 to 1968.
Sellers & Ekland embracing, her legs entwined with his
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Britt Ekland & Patrick Lichfield by Terry O’Neill, 1970
The actress & the photographer in black leather jackets, sitting back to back on a motorcycle.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Happy birthday Britt Ekland 🎂 A wonderful photograph by Patrick Lichfield, May 1970 This shot was taken in front of Lichfield's ancestral home, Shugborough Hall
Ekland sits underneath a tree with a large book & two white dogs.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 10h
Once again, last year's #GoJays becomes this year's #GoWhiteSox
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My favorite Meret Oppenheim piece is her 1964 self portrait.
An X-Ray bust of the artist’s head and amazingly long-fingered hand in profile, from the shoulder up. Her large double hoop earrings are visible as are two rings and a metal collar style necklace hovers above her spinal column.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This Man Ray photograph of Méret Oppenheim, from 1933, became a meme. It's referenced in this photo of Lois Gunas Wideman by Tom Palumbo for Harper’s Bazaar, 1958
Another shot of a naked, ink-smeared Oppenheim standing next to the large wheel of a printing press.A model in a long red dress, red hat & white gloves, standinbg next to a large cast iron valve in a factory. Her pose matches Oppenheim's.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Man Ray's 1933 photograph of Méret Oppenheim at Louis Marcoussis's printing press. Published in the Surrealist journal Minotaure, the image forged Oppenheim’s reputation as the muse of the Parisian Surrealists.
The nude Oppenheim stands next to a printing press. She has ink smeared on her bare arm.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Meret Oppenheim Gloves, 1985 (adapted from a 1940s design) “Oppenheim collected gloves of all kinds. She even had a baseball glove, a present from Marcel Duchamp.” - Krystyna Wasserman #GoJays ⚾
Two gloves in front of a book with two glove-shaped holes on facing pages.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Meret Oppenheim Object Paris, 1936 Museum of Modern Art “Ah, this eternal Fur-cup. You make an object, which gets placed on an altar, and everybody only speaks of it and nothing else.” - MO
Fur-lined cup & saucer and spoon
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Meret Oppenheim by Karl Heinz Bast, 1982 "When comfort is no longer mistaken for culture, when beauty becomes a necessity again – then writing and the arts will regain their position of their own accord."
Oppenheim poses in front of one of her works: a head with feathers.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Remembering Méret Oppenheim on her birthday 🎂 📷 Man Ray, 1932 "Oppenheim's quirky sensibility & rebellious turn of mind may account for the restlessness of her work, which gives the impression that she reinvented it & herself every day." - Grace Glueck
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 10h
fabulous picture.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 10h
form follows function 😊
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"On the last day of filming, Gable presented Lombard with a pair of ballerina slippers with a card attached that said, 'To a true primadonna'. Lombard got him back when she presented him with a large ham with his picture on it." - Rob Nixon
Lombard & Gable in a clinch in the stacks.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In No Man of Her Own, Carole Lombard plays a librarian. I'd love to track this film down so I could watch it during #LibrariesWeek. Eugene Richee was the still photographer on the set.
Lombard on a ladder in the stacks, reaching for a book. Gable stands behind her, admiring her ankle.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Carole Lombard by George Hurrell, 1931 "That twinkle in your eye. Wrap it up for me, will you?” - Babe Stewart (Clark Gable) to Connie Randall (Carole Lombard), in Wesley Ruggles's No Man of Her Own, 1932. This was the only film Gable & Lombard made together.
A sexy shot of Lombard, looking into the camera
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Carole Lombard by Ernest Bachrach, 1939 "Though she could hold her own in tearjerker territory, Lombard practically invented screwball comedy, or at least shaped its contours." - Molly Haskell
A serious Lombard, her head in her hand
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Carole Lombard by Otto Dyar, c. 1935 "She made a career out of effervescing through films that are mostly unworthy of her: if they are viewed today, it is because she graces them." - Sarah Churchwell
Head & bare shoulders of Lombard, lit in a dramatic & glamorous way.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
They seem to find their new film funny. Garson Kanin, Carole Lombard & Charles Laughton by Peter Stackpole, 1940. They Knew What They Wanted was written by Robert Ardrey, based on Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Man, I love this shot!
Kanin & Laughton laugh heartily, while Lombard is laughing so hard she has her head down in her hands.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Garson Kanin, Carole Lombard & Charles Laughton watch They Knew What They Wanted at RKO 📷 Peter Stackpole, 1940
The three are sitting in easy chairs watching the film.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Coffee with Carole Lombard ☕️ 📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life, 1938
Lombard relaxes on a rug at home, with her coffee, some photos & a script
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Remembering Carole Lombard on her birthday 🎂 📷 John McNab, 1930s "She's someone who might compete in the frosty icon department with Garbo, Dietrich and Crawford, except that she can't keep a straight face." - Vincent Canby
Lombard leans on the landing gear of an airplane.

Take the train, Carole!
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Here’s the Le Corbusier chair in a Herbert Matter photo for House and Garden, May 1957
Description: A living room with a Le Corbusier chair and a guest bed and a Japanese lamp.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Bert Stern Twiggy in a Le Corbusier chair Vogue, November 1967
Twiggy lounges on a modern chair
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Le Corbusier by Ida Kar 2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954 "By the use of raw materials and starting from conditions more or less utilitarian, you have established certain relationships which have aroused my emotions. This is Architecture."
The architect, in a short-sleeved shirt, looks at the camera in his studio, with some of his paintings behind him.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
La Femme et le Moineau A tapestry by Le Corbusier, from 1957 (moineau = sparrow)
Brightly coloured abstract design
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The colour groups of the Architectural Polychromy, 1960 "Le Corbusier chose all colours very consciously for architecture. This has resulted in a perfect selection of architectural colours, gathered in the Architectural Polychromy." - Les Couleurs Suisse AG
Dots of different colours, arranged by Le Corbusier in a certain pattern.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Le Corbusier by Nina Leen for Life magazine, 1965 "As he slips further into history, his modernity matters less and less: it is the timeless levels in his art which have most to give to the future." - William J R Curtis
The architects looks up from his book at the camera, his glasses on his forehead.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Willy Maywald Le Corbusier à Auteuil, 24 rue Ningesser et Coli, 16ème arrondissement, 1948 Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris When completely unexpected geometric shadow-shapes take over your portrait...
The architect consults some papers. He's standing underneath a modern sculpture attached to the wall. Strong light from the side casts shadows from Le Corbusier & the sculpture.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Another Sem Presser portrait of Le Corbusier, from 1951. He's standing in front of his building Unité d'Habitation, under construction in Marseille.
The architect shot from below, his building looming above him.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Le Corbusier by Sem Presser Marseille, 1951 "Le Corbusier has become not so much an object for our discourse as part of the very ground upon which that discourse must be founded." - Alan Plattus
The architect and two of his students climb a concrete stairway against a blank landscape.
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