Any photographer who shoots what’s happening in the gleaming, raw, people-packed carnival of New York City — the stores and walls and towers and alleyways, the celebrities, the endless cross-section of humanity — already has an artistic leg up. But the other leg is what he or she does with it. Weegee shot the violent night world of sin and crime. Diane Arbus captured the hidden freak show and showed us its humanity. Alfred Eisenstaedt and William Klein caught the hurly-burly of the everyday. But as you watch “Uncropped,” an addictive look at the life and work of the magazine and newspaper photographer James Hamilton, you may think: He’s the greatest New York photographer of them all.
Hamilton’s black-and-white images — in the documentary, we see hundreds of them — have a burnished tactility, and a psychology so effortless that every one of them tells a story. The photographs are gallery beautiful,...
Hamilton’s black-and-white images — in the documentary, we see hundreds of them — have a burnished tactility, and a psychology so effortless that every one of them tells a story. The photographs are gallery beautiful,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
While members of the Kardashian family usually opt for campy Halloween costumes, this year Kendall Jenner went for a more toned-down Marilyn Monroe costume.
On October 29, Kendall posted photos on Instagram of herself in a blonde wig and black turtleneck. She captioned the post, “Happy birthday mister president,” a reference to Monroe’s iconic 1962 performance at Madison Square Garden to honor President John F. Kennedy’s 45th birthday.
Kendall’s photos recreated the 1953 Life magazine portraits taken of Monroe by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Kim Kardashian stirred controversy when she wore Marilyn Monroe’s original 1962 naked dress to the 2022 Met Gala – the same dress Monroe had worn to serenade Kennedy.
Kim told Vogue at the event, “The dress was transported by guards and I had to wear gloves to try it on… I always thought she was extremely curvy. I imagined I might be smaller in some places where she was bigger...
On October 29, Kendall posted photos on Instagram of herself in a blonde wig and black turtleneck. She captioned the post, “Happy birthday mister president,” a reference to Monroe’s iconic 1962 performance at Madison Square Garden to honor President John F. Kennedy’s 45th birthday.
Kendall’s photos recreated the 1953 Life magazine portraits taken of Monroe by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Kim Kardashian stirred controversy when she wore Marilyn Monroe’s original 1962 naked dress to the 2022 Met Gala – the same dress Monroe had worn to serenade Kennedy.
Kim told Vogue at the event, “The dress was transported by guards and I had to wear gloves to try it on… I always thought she was extremely curvy. I imagined I might be smaller in some places where she was bigger...
- 10/31/2023
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
The Navy sailor who passionately kissed a woman to celebrate the end of World War II -- captured by a photographer in what's easily one of the most iconic images in American history -- has died. The sailor, George Mendonsa, died Sunday at age 95 after falling and suffering a seizure at an assisted living facility in Middletown, Rhode Island. George's daughter told the Providence Journal her father was living at the facility with his wife of more than 70 years.
- 2/18/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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