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Happy Birthday, Dora Maar

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“All Picasso’s portraits of me are lies. They’re all Picassos. Not one is Dora Maar.”

Happy Birthday to the brilliant Dora Maar 🖤🐚

Dora Maar in her Paris apartment, photographed by Lee Miller (c. 1956)
Dora Maar, Untitled (Hand-Shell) (1934)
Dora Maar, Untitled (double-exposed portrait) (1936)
Dora Maar, Père Ubu (1936)

Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight

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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:

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Photo by W. Eugene Smoth (1952)