#len steckler

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outtake for Harper’s Bazaar, 1966 by Len Steckler

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Len Steckler - Samantha Jones (Cosmopolitan 1968)

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Len Steckler, 1961.

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Through the Colors, Len Steckler, 1964

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Photography by Len Steckler, circa 1965

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Len Steckler (May 6, 1928 – August 11, 2016)

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Photography Len Steckler

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Photography by Len Steckler, circa 1965

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Painting by Len Steckler https://flic.kr/p/2ep23Dk

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THE SADIST: Teen Terrorizes Teachers

“How does it feel when you’re about to die?” asks a beady-eyed boy. His handgun, perpetually drawn at the hip, is leveled at a schoolteacher who’s bent over, tinkering with the innards of a car engine. This bit of cruelty foreshadows an impending violence—the big blast of silence. In fact, the threat of violence clings to this film with its oh-so-appropriate title, The Sadist (1963). And when the violence does come, it’s swift and blunt, and the threat looms once more. That’s how it feels when you’re watching this sweaty, greasy, and white-hot B movie that unfolds in real-time. Alamo Drafthouse programmer Joseph A. Ziemba describes The Sadist best: “If an episode of The Twilight Zone was directed by Tobe Hooper circa 1974, it might have turned out like this movie.” The film’s premise is simple, elemental even: Three teachers go on a road trip to watch a Dodgers game in L.A. Car troubles beset them, and they pull into a junkyard, finding a giggling serial killer and his girlfriend. The young sadist is dead set on murdering them only after making them squirm under his power.

Playing at drive-ins, and sharing an unfortunate double bill with Ray Dennis Steckler’s The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964), The Sadist came and went like a Seattle rain. It’s an independent film produced by a man, Arch Hall Sr., who wanted to make his son, Arch Hall Jr., a movie star. Yet Jr. didn’t have a burning desire to be an actor at all. At the time, he had more of an interest in his own rock ‘n’ roll band, The Archers, and his Fender Jazzmaster, which can be seen with Jr. playing it in Eegah (1962) and Wild Guitar (1962). Later, he would become an airline pilot.  As for Hall Sr., he stumbled into show business after failed and aborted attempts in real estate, radio, and trucking operations. He financed quick, low-budget trash such as The Choppers (1961) and The Nasty Rabbit (1964), both of which starred Jr. The Sadist, on the other hand, is something altogether different, a nasty thriller amidst Sr.’s dreadful body of work. So it’s not surprising that he didn’t come up with the original idea, that would be the film’s director, James Landis. He brought a script loosely based on teenage serial killer Charlie Starkweather to Sr.’s attention. Sr. gave Landis the green light to direct the script with no real conditions except that Jr. had to star—and boy would he star.

Shot on a shoestring budget, The Sadist is a film, as Joe Dante observes in his Trailers From Hell review, like Casablanca (1942). It has a sweet mix of cast and crew. Along with Landis, there was cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, fresh from Hungary, and who would later lens Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, and Michael Cimino’s films. Here, Zsigmond makes each shot dynamic. With his Arriflex camera, he shoots from different angles. Shots are set in the trunk of a car, as well as behind windows and fences. Richard Alden, Don Russell, and Helen Hovey comprise the trio of helpless teachers. They give competent performances. Marilyn Manning is Judy, the sadist’s mousy thrill-seeking girlfriend. And then there’s Jr. If he had no desire for acting, it doesn’t show in The Sadist. As Charlie Tibbs, he’s bold and extravagant. He’s convincing as a psychopath. He has the giggling, grinning appearance of Richard Widmark combined with the ultra-cool youth of James Dean.

A decade before, in the 1950s, Hollywood films about teenagers began to appear on the screen, films such as The Wild One (1953), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and Crime in the Streets (1956). In them, juvenile delinquents ran amok in the square world of adults. “You’re tearing me apart!” James Dean shouts as his parents bicker about him in Rebel without a Cause. That could be the mantra for all teens lashing out at authority figures. The Sadist, however, mutates the 1950s juvenile delinquent films. The teen kills the grownups; he tears them apart.    

by Tanner Tafelski  

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Estas fotografias dos anos 1960 são a prova de que na moda o futuro e o passado estão sempre juntos

Estas fotografias dos anos 1960 são a prova de que na moda o futuro e o passado estão sempre juntos

O artista e fotógrafo norte-americano Len Steckler, falecido em 2016, clicou ao longo de sua carreira campanhas para diversas marcas e revistas de moda, como Revlon, CoverGirl, Vogue e Harper’s Bazaar.

Uma de suas imagens mais icônicas foi feita em 1961, quando ninguém menos que Marilyn Monroe chegou ao seu apartamento em NY de surpresa, para visitar um amigo seu, o premiado poeta Carl Sandburg.

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Colliers magazine Illustrated by Len Steckler 1954 via Leif Peng

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<strong>Steckler05.jpg <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/leifpeng/">by Leif Peng</a></strong> <br /><i>Via Flickr:</i> <br />Saturday Evening Post

Illustrated by Len Steckler June 1956

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Psychedelic Outtakes From a 1960s Fashion Shoot

Psychedelic Outtakes From a 1960s Fashion Shoot

At the start of his career, the late artist Len Steckler was best known for shooting fashion and beauty ad campaigns in the 1960s. He also captured icons — one particular shoot with Marilyn Monroe happened by accident, in 1961, when she arrived unannounced at his New York City apartment….<a target="_blank" …read more Source:: The Cut via rss       

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Eternal, Len Steckler, circa 1965

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Mind-Bending Outtakes From 60s Psychedelic Photoshoots To Distract You From Real Life

For the first time ever, artistic icon Len Steckler's bold fashion photography will go on public display. Outtakes from some of the acclaimed photographer's most mesmerising photoshoots can now be seen for the very first time. And they're optically... Read more