Malia Nurmi – aka Vampira – was born on this day (11 December 1922). A few years ago, for Magnum Photos, I wrote about Dennis Stock’s portraits of “The First Hostess of Horror”: https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/cinema/vampira-first-hostess-of-horror-dennis-stock-maila-nurmi-halloween-horror-gothic/
A small dispatch on Lee Miller for my paying newsletter subs:
“All Picasso’s portraits of me are lies. They’re all Picassos. Not one is Dora Maar.”
Happy Birthday to the brilliant Dora Maar 🖤🐚
For Magnum Photos I wrote about W. Eugene’s Smith moving photographs of Charlie Chaplin as he made Limelight (1952), the most personal film of his career:
Photo by W. Eugene Smoth (1952)
I wrote about Henri Cartier-Bresson’s evocative dance photographs for Magnum Photos:
Sabina Stent 