arleen whelan / robert henri – edna
luise rainer / egon schiele – edith schiele seated
sophia loren / gustav klimt – portrait of johanna staude
gary cooper / gustave courbet – the desperate man (aka the man made by fear)
marilyn monroe / john white alexander – june
june allyson / tatiana gorb – schoolgirl*
*thanks vladimir
i’ve been looking for a reason to do another one of these posts. truth is they’ve been featured on some of my favourite blogs lately, and i’ve received many kind emails from readers saying how much they like them. man, people on the internet are nice! so i dipped into my folders of saved vintage photos (all from doctor macro) & paired them with portraits that i love. ended up making way too many for one post… more to come later.
marilyn monroe / al greco – a lady in a fur wrap
susan hayward / ivan g. olinsky – serviceman’s wife
james dean / charles w. hawthorne
janet leigh / leigh louise gadbois
natalie wood / picasso - la toilette
sharon tate / félix vallotton – la liseuse
i bookmarked these portraits by jelmar geertsma before i even had the blog, and by some happy circumstance rediscovered them this week when i was trawling through old favourites on a mission to find something else (don’t you love it when that happens?) things organised neatly and portraiture all in one = yes. jelmar explains,
series of portraits i’m making of my family … the portraits are made up of attributes that each of us have for our hobbies or work. the upper-right corner shows painted portraits as well, which are painted by my father.
