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*Jansy Mello*: Thanks for sharing these, Barrie. Are you planning to
visit the show?
It’s an interesting photo, Nabokov seems to have applied eye liner.
Anyway, his expression is… well… picturesque, with a Fellini-movie touch
and a hint of bristling hair running down his back… I love it.
picturesque the way a landscape is, a very American one perhaps
Thank *you*, Jansy, for letting us know about this exhibit. I may visit it,
I'd like to. Viewing it online I felt that Bert Stern was a great
photographer and there are some I'd especially like to see in person. It's
easy to be fooled by viewing online, but so often I only realize that when
I see a photo in person. I'm particularly interested in the ones of MM and
Sue Lyon. I was thinking that the VN photo has great lighting and is shot
from below, and his face looks like a giant mountain. I don't particularly
see eyeliner -- wonder if anyone else does -- and I didn't notice the hair
down his neck, what an odd observation! Now that you point it out, it
reminds me of something I saw growing up an ancient tree trunk in the
Museum of Natural History museum recently and photographed (link below, and
photo pasted in below). Concerning " a hint of bristling hair running down
his back… I love it." tell more! Interesting that you mention Fellini, as
I've been re-watching "8-1/2" recently (streaming from The Criterion
Collection via HuluPlus). That thought didn't occur to me but now I won't
be able to forget it as I gaze at that b&w film masterpiece, or won't be
able to stop comparing bw film methods and results. I see what you mean in
that the b&w photography is done so well, so strikingly. For the VN photo,
perhaps the view from below gives us an exaggerated idea of distance
between left eye and brow. It's a pre-Photoshop photo to perfection.
Dark, light, detail. Light in the eyes. Perhaps Bert Stern succeeded in
getting VN to cede control, revealing more than he himself may have
designed or usually permitted in print, in public, but probably also
pleasing him. Does anyone know, did VN like this photo?
Barrie
Jansy, do you see the hair going up the neck of this tree in the MNH park
(April 30, 2015) like the hair you spotted on VN's neck in photo by Bert
Stern:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206557032504342&set=a.10206557032384339.1073742135.1227040892&type=3&theater
April 30, 2015, MNH
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Jansy Mello <jansy.mello@outlook.com>
wrote:
> *Jansy Mello*: Thanks for sharing these, Barrie. Are you planning to
> visit the show?
>
> It’s an interesting photo, Nabokov seems to have applied eye liner.
> Anyway, his expression is… well… picturesque, with a Fellini-movie touch
> and a hint of bristling hair running down his back… I love it.
>
>
>
> *De:* Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] *Em nome
> de *Barrie Karp
> *Enviada em:* quarta-feira, 10 de junho de 2015 23:46
> *Para:* NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> *Assunto:* Re: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKV-L [Photography] VN's cameo appearance
> in Bert Stern's work in New York
>
>
>
> did you look at the exhibit online?
>
> Here's the one of VN:
>
>
> 29. Bert Stern
> Vladimir Nabokov, 1961
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visit the show?
It’s an interesting photo, Nabokov seems to have applied eye liner.
Anyway, his expression is… well… picturesque, with a Fellini-movie touch
and a hint of bristling hair running down his back… I love it.
picturesque the way a landscape is, a very American one perhaps
Thank *you*, Jansy, for letting us know about this exhibit. I may visit it,
I'd like to. Viewing it online I felt that Bert Stern was a great
photographer and there are some I'd especially like to see in person. It's
easy to be fooled by viewing online, but so often I only realize that when
I see a photo in person. I'm particularly interested in the ones of MM and
Sue Lyon. I was thinking that the VN photo has great lighting and is shot
from below, and his face looks like a giant mountain. I don't particularly
see eyeliner -- wonder if anyone else does -- and I didn't notice the hair
down his neck, what an odd observation! Now that you point it out, it
reminds me of something I saw growing up an ancient tree trunk in the
Museum of Natural History museum recently and photographed (link below, and
photo pasted in below). Concerning " a hint of bristling hair running down
his back… I love it." tell more! Interesting that you mention Fellini, as
I've been re-watching "8-1/2" recently (streaming from The Criterion
Collection via HuluPlus). That thought didn't occur to me but now I won't
be able to forget it as I gaze at that b&w film masterpiece, or won't be
able to stop comparing bw film methods and results. I see what you mean in
that the b&w photography is done so well, so strikingly. For the VN photo,
perhaps the view from below gives us an exaggerated idea of distance
between left eye and brow. It's a pre-Photoshop photo to perfection.
Dark, light, detail. Light in the eyes. Perhaps Bert Stern succeeded in
getting VN to cede control, revealing more than he himself may have
designed or usually permitted in print, in public, but probably also
pleasing him. Does anyone know, did VN like this photo?
Barrie
Jansy, do you see the hair going up the neck of this tree in the MNH park
(April 30, 2015) like the hair you spotted on VN's neck in photo by Bert
Stern:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206557032504342&set=a.10206557032384339.1073742135.1227040892&type=3&theater
April 30, 2015, MNH
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Jansy Mello <jansy.mello@outlook.com>
wrote:
> *Jansy Mello*: Thanks for sharing these, Barrie. Are you planning to
> visit the show?
>
> It’s an interesting photo, Nabokov seems to have applied eye liner.
> Anyway, his expression is… well… picturesque, with a Fellini-movie touch
> and a hint of bristling hair running down his back… I love it.
>
>
>
> *De:* Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] *Em nome
> de *Barrie Karp
> *Enviada em:* quarta-feira, 10 de junho de 2015 23:46
> *Para:* NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> *Assunto:* Re: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKV-L [Photography] VN's cameo appearance
> in Bert Stern's work in New York
>
>
>
> did you look at the exhibit online?
>
> Here's the one of VN:
>
>
> 29. Bert Stern
> Vladimir Nabokov, 1961
> Google Search
> <http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&hl=en%0A>
> the archive
> <http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&hl=en%0A>
> Contact <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu>
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> NOJ
> <http://www.nabokovonline.com> Zembla
> <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> Nabokv-L
> <http://web.utk.edu/%7Esblackwe/EDNote.htm>
> Policies <http://web.utk.edu/%7Esblackwe/EDNote.htm> Subscription options
> <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NABOKV-L> AdaOnline
> <http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/> NSJ Ada Annotations
> <http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html> L-Soft Search the archive
> <https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L> VN Bibliography
> Blog <http://vnbiblio.com/>
>
> All private editorial communications are read by both co-editors.
>
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
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