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Dean Frey
@dean.bsky.social
aka Deny Fear

📷 Esther Bubley
Man on Platform, c. 1951

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Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window

"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
Oskar Werner as Hamlet
📷 Harry Weber, Salzburg Festival, 1970
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Oskar Werner at home in Paris
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1966
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Raymond Cauchetier
Henri Serre, Oskar Werner & Jeanne Moreau in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim, 1962
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Oskar Werner & Henri Serre on the set of François Truffaut's Jules et Jim
📷 Raymond Cauchetier, 1962

"Jules and Jim is one of those rare films that knows how fast audiences can think, & how emotions contain their own explanations."
- Roger Ebert
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Oskar Werner by Philippe Halsman, 1966

"To me the stage is sculpture. Films are like a painted poster, spread out on a one-dimensional surface."
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Remembering Oskar Werner on his birthday 🎂
With François Truffaut on the set of Fahrenheit 451
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1966

Though star & director did not get along on a very unhappy set, as Richard Brody says, "... the film remains audaciously surprising even now."

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In Richard Linklater's new film Nouvelle Vague, Jean Seberg is played by Zoey Deutch.

The still photographer on the set was Jean-Louis Fernandez
#stillonset

"All you need to make a film... is a girl... and a gun."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufR...
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Graham Nash
Neil Young Rehearsing for Déjà Vu at Stephen's House, 1969

"That’s Neil. That’s the look. He is this unapproachable, untouchable entity & he’s looking at you with those eyes daring you to come up with something that he can’t handle."
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My Mount Rushmore of Canadian songwriters:

Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Ian Tyson
Neil Young
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Neil Young at the Broken Arrow Ranch, Half Moon Bay, California
📷 Henry Diltz, 1971

Young's dog was named Harte.

"With the extension of his nervous system as a total information environment, man bridges art and nature."
- Marshall McLuhan
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Neil Young by Danny Clinch, 2016

"Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Neil Young by Carlo Massarini
Milan, 1989

"As if you ever doubted it for a moment, he loves to go through the wall, beyond the end of notes."
- Steve Erickson
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Neil Young by Guido Harari
Milan, 1989

"Young has never been physically whole, but that brokenness has annealed rather than slowed him. He is anything but a frail man when he has a guitar in his hand."
- David Carr

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRii...
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Neil Young by Julie Gardner, 2014

"The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Neil Young by Danny Clinch, 2005

"We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future."
- Marshall McLuhan
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Neil Young in his 1947 Buick Roadmaster, photographed by Joel Bernstein at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, Hollywood, September 1973

"At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Graham Nash took this shot of Neil Young driving to his ranch at Broken Arrow in 1988. Nash was in a limo with David Crosby & Steven Stills.

"I saw him driving along this lonely road & I thought, 'This is a perfect image of Neil Young.'"
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Cameron Crowe:
"The cover photo, taken at sunset on their last day in the islands, tells it all - a clear portrait of four tanned men, all living in completely separate worlds. The print is now tacked up on Neil Young’s bedroom wall at his ranch."

The photo is by Graham Nash
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A crop of this shot became the cover of Neil Young's 1970 album After The Gold Rush. This was Joel Bernstein's very first album cover, in a long & distinguished career.

"Tell My Why"

youtube.com/watch?v=sSWx...
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Neil Young by Joel Bernstein, from 1970.

That's Graham Nash on the right
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Julie Gardner
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Newcastle, June 10, 2013

"Zen yet a little obsessive, open yet a little unapproachable, lurching toward his ambitions yet held back by his wariness of having to explain himself."
- Steve Erickson
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
An intense moment from Neil Young is captured by Robert Altman (the photographer, not the director), during a concert with Crazy Horse on March 20, 1970

"Cinnamon Girl"
youtube.com/watch?v=qwXb...
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Another shot of Neil Young by Ronald van Caem, 1970s

A musician's sunglasses are a photographer's best friend.
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Neil Young by Ronald van Caem, 1976

"He likes it when the zeitgeist howls back."
- Steve Erickson

"Heart of Gold"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9q...
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Happy birthday Neil Young 🎂
📷 Mark Seliger

"An artist like Neil always has the upper hand. It’s the pop world that has to make adjustments."
- Bob Dylan
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM