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Edward Gorey photographed by Richard Avedon, Cape Cod, 1992.

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Maybe that’s what life is… A wink of the eye and winking stars.

― Jack Kerouac, Selected Letters 1940-1956

Ph Burt Goldblatt

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Donna Reed

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Dovima by Tony Vaccaro, New York 1957.

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George Foreman in 1976. He won the heavyweight title in 1973 and again in 1994 / Bettman, via Getty

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Voracious and vituperative, Albert C Barnes was a character of wild contradictions — a “tyrannical egalitarian,” a “patriarchal feminist,” a “Gilded Age progressive.” Co-inventor of a gonorrhea antiseptic used to prevent blindness in newborns, he amassed more than 4,000 pieces of art and objects, and set up a personal foundation dedicated to using the collection to teach “plain people” (not the intellectuals and philistine Philadelphia elites he disdained) how to learn to see.

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Merle Oberon, Oscar nominated actress

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Birthday remembrance - Diana Hyland #botd

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Gail Kobe 

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Norma Shearer photographed by George Hurrell, 1934

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Josephine Baker (1928)

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Joan Crawford: The Forgotten Queen of Style

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Gene Hackman, Hollywood’s Consummate Everyman, 1973 photo Evening Standard/Getty Images

The winner of two Oscars, he was hailed for his nuanced performances in films like “The French Connection,” “Unforgiven” and “The Royal Tenenbaums.”

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Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1961 Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Ann-Margret rides her chopper motorbike down an empty highway, Las Vegas, 1971 - by Douglas Kirkland (1934 - 2022), Canadian/American