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jamesdeandaily:

James Dean photographed by Frank Worth, 1955.
Jimmy looked at the photograph Worth had taken and suddenly made a big X over the picture. “I don’t want that printed,” Jimmy told him.
“I couldn’t figure out what was wrong because it wasn’t a bad photo except that a bit of his underwear was slipping out of his pants,” said Worth. “But Dean has been photographed with nothing but underwear on, so that wasn’t it. The picture showed him with his head turned away for a moment. ‘It makes me look like a kid,’ Jimmy stammered, ‘a helpless kid who just got his finger banged or his best toy busted and he wants his mother. It makes me look like I’m hurt and I’m crying out - not out loud - but just crying for someone to come and help me. I don’t want people to see me that way.’ I was aware of a quiet, imperative tone in his voice. ‘Maybe later, much later, you can’t print that picture, but not for a long, long, time,’ Jimmy said.”

theniftyfifties:

Students having some downtime, 1956. Photo by Hank Walker for Life magazine.

Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire in You’ll Never Get Rich (1941)

life:

On the 15th anniversary of Sinatra’s death, LIFE considers a 1965 photograph that, all these years later, is notable precisely because the Chairman of the Board is so supremely oblivious to our gaze.
(John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

thischarmlessgirl:

Jean Cocteau photographed by Man Ray, 1922.

ciel-bleu-lavande:

Avis and Effie Hotchkiss, a mother and daughter team riding from New York to California to attend the San Francisco World’s Fair while making themselves the first female riders to cross the United States, c.1915.