• Singer, actor, athlete, speaker, and activist Paul Robeson. Photo by Gordon Coster, taken some time in the 1930s. Thanks for joining us for this week’s spotlight on Coster. Stay tuned for more historic photos from MUUS Collection 🎞 © Gordon Coster/MUUS Collection
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    Singer, actor, athlete, speaker, and activist Paul Robeson. Photo by Gordon Coster, taken some time in the 1930s. Thanks for joining us for this week’s spotlight on Coster. Stay tuned for more historic photos from MUUS Collection 🎞 © Gordon Coster/MUUS Collection
  • Industrial workers at an auto parts factory, by Gordon Coster. You can check out yesterday’s post for more info on the life and work of Coster. Or, take a look at our Story today for more Coster photos of workers speaking, organizing, and laboring 🔩🔧⛓ © Gordon Coster/MUUS Collection
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    Industrial workers at an auto parts factory, by Gordon Coster. You can check out yesterday’s post for more info on the life and work of Coster. Or, take a look at our Story today for more Coster photos of workers speaking, organizing, and laboring 🔩🔧⛓ © Gordon Coster/MUUS Collection
  • This week, we’re focusing on the photography of Gordon Coster 📸 Born in Baltimore in 1906, Coster began taking photos at a young age. When he was 19, his image “Shadow of the Washington Monument” was published in the Baltimore Sun. At this time, Coster was heavily influenced by the abstract, geometric style of the Bauhaus movement, which he continued to reference throughout his photography career. Coster soon began shooting professionally for the advertising firm Underwood & Underwood. With U&U, he moved to Chicago in 1930, and by 1936 he had established his own independent photography studio. Coster soon shifted from advertising to an artistic, experimental body of work that highlighted his industrial surroundings. He also turned to photojournalism, doing freelance coverage of labor and civil rights movements for publications like Life, Time, and Scientific American. Among his projects were images of life on the homefront during WWII, from military manufacturing and morale-building to women working in factories. Coster’s various assignments also included mental institutions, life in the Midwest, and union meetings - all denoting an overarching interest and dedication to social welfare issues of his time. In 1946, László Moholy-Nagy, a leader of the Bauhaus movement, invited Coster to lecture in his photography course at the Institute of Design (@iitdesign). Coster accepted the invitation, and later returned to teach his own courses sporadically through the ‘50s and ‘60s. He ceased making photos in the mid-60s, and retired a few years before his death in 1988. Coster has had his work showcased in the @metmuseum, the @themuseumofmodernart, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston @camhouston, and the @stephendaitergallery in Chicago. Pictured here is Coster’s image of the Rock Island Train, a Metra commuter rail line from Chicago that traveled southwest to Joliet. © Gordon Coster/MUUS Collection
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    This week, we’re focusing on the photography of Gordon Coster 📸 Born in Baltimore in 1906, Coster began taking photos at a young age. When he was 19, his image “Shadow of the Washington Monument” was published in the Baltimore Sun. At this time, Coster was heavily influenced by the abstract, geometric style of the Bauhaus movement, which he continued to reference throughout his photography career. Coster soon began shooting professionally for the advertising firm Underwood & Underwood. With U&U, he moved to Chicago in 1930, and by 1936 he had established his own independent photography studio. Coster soon shifted from advertising to an artistic, experimental body of work that highlighted his industrial surroundings. He also turned to photojournalism, doing freelance coverage of labor and civil rights movements for publications like Life, Time, and Scientific American. Among his projects were images of life on the homefront during WWII, from military manufacturing and morale-building to women working in factories. Coster’s various assignments also included mental institutions, life in the Midwest, and union meetings - all denoting an overarching interest and dedication to social welfare issues of his time. In 1946, László Moholy-Nagy, a leader of the Bauhaus movement, invited Coster to lecture in his photography course at the Institute of Design (@iitdesign). Coster accepted the invitation, and later returned to teach his own courses sporadically through the ‘50s and ‘60s. He ceased making photos in the mid-60s, and retired a few years before his death in 1988. Coster has had his work showcased in the @metmuseum, the @themuseumofmodernart, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston @camhouston, and the @stephendaitergallery in Chicago. Pictured here is Coster’s image of the Rock Island Train, a Metra commuter rail line from Chicago that traveled southwest to Joliet. © Gordon Coster/MUUS Collection
  • Today is International Museum Day, and how appropriate that this year the holiday falls the day before museums in New York can opt to reopen at 100% capacity. To celebrate, here are some of our favorite NYC museum pics by Fred McDarrah... 1) A view of the first major Andy Warhol retrospective at the Whitney Museum. April 28th, 1971. 2) Contact sheet of photos from the Inaugural Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, marking the institution’s move from a rented space into the iconic building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. October 19th, 1959. 3) Poet and curator Frank O’Hara exits from the revolving door at the Museum of Modern Art. Jan 20th, 1960 4) People gather in one of the courtyard-hugging cloisters of the Met Cloisters to listen to medieval music. July 28th, 1963. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
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    Today is International Museum Day, and how appropriate that this year the holiday falls the day before museums in New York can opt to reopen at 100% capacity. To celebrate, here are some of our favorite NYC museum pics by Fred McDarrah... 1) A view of the first major Andy Warhol retrospective at the Whitney Museum. April 28th, 1971. 2) Contact sheet of photos from the Inaugural Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, marking the institution’s move from a rented space into the iconic building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. October 19th, 1959. 3) Poet and curator Frank O’Hara exits from the revolving door at the Museum of Modern Art. Jan 20th, 1960 4) People gather in one of the courtyard-hugging cloisters of the Met Cloisters to listen to medieval music. July 28th, 1963. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
  • Sunday scaries, anyone? 💀😱 Seen here are art handlers hanging “Skull” in the @thewarholmuseum in Pittsburgh. May 11, 1994. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
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    Sunday scaries, anyone? 💀😱 Seen here are art handlers hanging “Skull” in the @thewarholmuseum in Pittsburgh. May 11, 1994. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
  • Wrapping up our spotlight on Burk Uzzle this week is his 2012 image, “Respect”, taken in Wilson, North Carolina. To learn more about Uzzle’s life and work, check out our recent post of his photo “Truck with Collards”. 📸 © Burk Uzzle/MUUS Collection
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    Wrapping up our spotlight on Burk Uzzle this week is his 2012 image, “Respect”, taken in Wilson, North Carolina. To learn more about Uzzle’s life and work, check out our recent post of his photo “Truck with Collards”. 📸 © Burk Uzzle/MUUS Collection
  • Today in this week’s Burk Uzzle series: “Cowboy and 18 Wheeler” To learn more about the life & work of photojournalist Burk Uzzle, check out yesterday’s post! 📸 © Burk Uzzle/MUUS Collection
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    Today in this week’s Burk Uzzle series: “Cowboy and 18 Wheeler” To learn more about the life & work of photojournalist Burk Uzzle, check out yesterday’s post! 📸 © Burk Uzzle/MUUS Collection
  • This week, we are highlighting the work of photojournalist Burk Uzzle. Uzzle was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1938, and at age 23 became the youngest contract photographer to be hired by Life Magazine. Uzzle has since spent his six-decade career capturing images of the human condition. While he is well known for the iconic “Woodstock” album cover of a couple embracing, he also gave the world images of everything from the funeral of MLK Jr to Cambodian refugees of war. He was also a contributor to Magnum Photos throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, and its 1979-1980 President. In recent years, Uzzle returned to his home state of North Carolina, where his photos, bursting with color, have centered around members of communities in the American South. His art continues to reflect on relevant issues surrounding American culture, race, and social justice. This image, “Truck with Collards”, was shot by Uzzle in Wilson, NC in 2005. 📸 © Burk Uzzle/MUUS Collection
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    This week, we are highlighting the work of photojournalist Burk Uzzle. Uzzle was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1938, and at age 23 became the youngest contract photographer to be hired by Life Magazine. Uzzle has since spent his six-decade career capturing images of the human condition. While he is well known for the iconic “Woodstock” album cover of a couple embracing, he also gave the world images of everything from the funeral of MLK Jr to Cambodian refugees of war. He was also a contributor to Magnum Photos throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, and its 1979-1980 President. In recent years, Uzzle returned to his home state of North Carolina, where his photos, bursting with color, have centered around members of communities in the American South. His art continues to reflect on relevant issues surrounding American culture, race, and social justice. This image, “Truck with Collards”, was shot by Uzzle in Wilson, NC in 2005. 📸 © Burk Uzzle/MUUS Collection
  • #Onthisday in 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as the first Black president of South Africa. Mandela was born in 1918, to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, South Africa. Rather than taking up the role of chief, he left to become a lawyer in Johannesburg. There, he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the African National Congress. In 1948, the National Party came to power in South Africa and brought with it racial apartheid as government policy. At this time, Mandela became a leader of the fast-growing ANC, and rose to prominence for his involvement in campaigns of defiance against the National Party. Mandela organized not only peaceful civil disobedience in protest of apartheid, but led a paramilitary sabotage campaign for which he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964. Mandela spent 27 years in prison, the first 18 of which he served in the Robben Island Prison. Through this time, he was forced to carry out hard labor and was granted only incredibly limited contact with the outside world. However, even then he led a movement to improve living conditions within Robben Island. Mandela’s release was finally ordered in 1990 by new anti-apartheid president F.W. de Klerk, and he quickly rejoined the ANC to negotiate an end to apartheid. In 1993, he and de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. South Africa’s first free, multiracial election was held the next year, won by Mandela and the ANC. As president, Mandela established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights violations that had occurred under apartheid. He worked to improve the living conditions of his country, and enacted a new constitution. He remained one of the world’s most esteemed voices in social justice and human rights, until and beyond his death in 2013. Here, Mandela is photographed by Fred McDarrah, shaking hands with David Dinkins, the first African American mayor of NYC. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
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    #Onthisday in 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as the first Black president of South Africa. Mandela was born in 1918, to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, South Africa. Rather than taking up the role of chief, he left to become a lawyer in Johannesburg. There, he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the African National Congress. In 1948, the National Party came to power in South Africa and brought with it racial apartheid as government policy. At this time, Mandela became a leader of the fast-growing ANC, and rose to prominence for his involvement in campaigns of defiance against the National Party. Mandela organized not only peaceful civil disobedience in protest of apartheid, but led a paramilitary sabotage campaign for which he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964. Mandela spent 27 years in prison, the first 18 of which he served in the Robben Island Prison. Through this time, he was forced to carry out hard labor and was granted only incredibly limited contact with the outside world. However, even then he led a movement to improve living conditions within Robben Island. Mandela’s release was finally ordered in 1990 by new anti-apartheid president F.W. de Klerk, and he quickly rejoined the ANC to negotiate an end to apartheid. In 1993, he and de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. South Africa’s first free, multiracial election was held the next year, won by Mandela and the ANC. As president, Mandela established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights violations that had occurred under apartheid. He worked to improve the living conditions of his country, and enacted a new constitution. He remained one of the world’s most esteemed voices in social justice and human rights, until and beyond his death in 2013. Here, Mandela is photographed by Fred McDarrah, shaking hands with David Dinkins, the first African American mayor of NYC. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
  • Happy Mother’s Day! Here’s to the women who raised and guided us 🥂 We hope you get to spend quality time celebrating the mothers in your life today - just like Fred, Elvis, and Arnold! 1) Fred Astaire with his mother Johanna in 1963, by Andre de Dienes 2) Elvis Presley with his mother Gladys, at their family home on July 4th, 1956, by Alfred Wertheimer 3) Arnold Schwarzenegger with his mother Aurelia in NYC, 1977, by Allan Tannenbaum 📸 © Andre de Dienes/Alfred Wertheimer/Allan Tannenbaum/MUUS Collection
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    Happy Mother’s Day! Here’s to the women who raised and guided us 🥂 We hope you get to spend quality time celebrating the mothers in your life today - just like Fred, Elvis, and Arnold! 1) Fred Astaire with his mother Johanna in 1963, by Andre de Dienes 2) Elvis Presley with his mother Gladys, at their family home on July 4th, 1956, by Alfred Wertheimer 3) Arnold Schwarzenegger with his mother Aurelia in NYC, 1977, by Allan Tannenbaum 📸 © Andre de Dienes/Alfred Wertheimer/Allan Tannenbaum/MUUS Collection
  • Pictured here are John Waters and actor/drag queen Divine, at the premiere of “Female Trouble” in 1975. John Waters was and is the king of campy cult films, with directing credits for “Cry-Baby”, “Pink Flamingos”, and “Female Trouble”. The friendship between Waters and Divine started during their teen years, as they grew up in the same Baltimore neighborhood. So, when Waters began making short films, with the goal of creating “the trashiest motion pictures in cinema history”, it was Divine and their friends who became his stars. As Waters’ movies became hits on the midnight-movie circuit, they also became the early vehicles for Divine’s career. After starring in “Female Trouble” as both the male and female leads, Divine performed in musical revues and plays, and began a drag act for gay clubs in the late ‘70s, in which he would perform disco songs, curse at the audience, and fight another drag queen. In the ‘80s, he produced more disco, which he took international tours to promote. One of the last films he starred in before his death in 1988 was the Waters-produced “Hairspray”. Rather than the “trashy” over-the-top roles he usually played, Divine was cast as Edna Turnblad, beginning the tradition of the character being played by a man in Broadway and Hollywood adaptations. Divine received critical praise for the role, and it marked his true breakout into mainstream cinema. In memoriam, Divine was described by People magazine as: “the Goddess of Gross, the Punk Elephant, the Big Bad Mama of the Midnight Movies... [and] a Miss Piggy for the blissfully depraved.” Divine served as an influence for many musicians, and was the inspiration for “The Little Mermaid” character Ursula the Sea Witch. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
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    Pictured here are John Waters and actor/drag queen Divine, at the premiere of “Female Trouble” in 1975. John Waters was and is the king of campy cult films, with directing credits for “Cry-Baby”, “Pink Flamingos”, and “Female Trouble”. The friendship between Waters and Divine started during their teen years, as they grew up in the same Baltimore neighborhood. So, when Waters began making short films, with the goal of creating “the trashiest motion pictures in cinema history”, it was Divine and their friends who became his stars. As Waters’ movies became hits on the midnight-movie circuit, they also became the early vehicles for Divine’s career. After starring in “Female Trouble” as both the male and female leads, Divine performed in musical revues and plays, and began a drag act for gay clubs in the late ‘70s, in which he would perform disco songs, curse at the audience, and fight another drag queen. In the ‘80s, he produced more disco, which he took international tours to promote. One of the last films he starred in before his death in 1988 was the Waters-produced “Hairspray”. Rather than the “trashy” over-the-top roles he usually played, Divine was cast as Edna Turnblad, beginning the tradition of the character being played by a man in Broadway and Hollywood adaptations. Divine received critical praise for the role, and it marked his true breakout into mainstream cinema. In memoriam, Divine was described by People magazine as: “the Goddess of Gross, the Punk Elephant, the Big Bad Mama of the Midnight Movies... [and] a Miss Piggy for the blissfully depraved.” Divine served as an influence for many musicians, and was the inspiration for “The Little Mermaid” character Ursula the Sea Witch. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
  • #OnThisDay in 1960 was the first ever televised wedding of the British Royal family. 20 million people in the UK and 300 million worldwide tuned in to watch Princess Margaret, the only sister of Queen Elizabeth, marry photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. The pair had two children, and though their union would end in 1978, the televised ceremony set a precedent for future Royal marriages, from Charles and Diana to Harry and Meghan. Seen here is Queen Elizabeth II on a visit to New York in 1976, photographed by Allan Tannenbaum @soho_blues. 📸 © Allan Tannenbaum/MUUS Collection
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    #OnThisDay in 1960 was the first ever televised wedding of the British Royal family. 20 million people in the UK and 300 million worldwide tuned in to watch Princess Margaret, the only sister of Queen Elizabeth, marry photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. The pair had two children, and though their union would end in 1978, the televised ceremony set a precedent for future Royal marriages, from Charles and Diana to Harry and Meghan. Seen here is Queen Elizabeth II on a visit to New York in 1976, photographed by Allan Tannenbaum @soho_blues. 📸 © Allan Tannenbaum/MUUS Collection
  • Happy birthday to the late Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)! Since 2007, Toronto has celebrated May 4th as the official Jane Jacobs Day. Jane Jacobs was primarily a journalist and urban planning activist, who advocated for cities to be built with the interests of their people in mind. Jacobs was a critic of “slum clearance” and modern “urban renewal” policies which threatened to replace already-present communities with isolated spaces through the construction of high rise housing. She instead celebrated the preservation of older buildings for their visual diversity, affordability, and their potential for creating mixed-use neighborhoods - as opposed to the single-use standard of zoning laws. Jacobs’ grassroots organizing was very successful in her home cities of New York and Toronto. She was instrumental in preventing the overhaul of Greenwich Village and the building of a Lower Manhattan Expressway, as well as a network of expressways through and around Toronto. Despite a lack of formal training, Jacobs deeply affected a male-dominated field that did not initially welcome her critiques. Jacobs’ book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, in which she coined terms like “social capital” and “mixed primary use”, earned her vitriol from the field of city planning. She especially made an enemy of Robert Moses, a city planning official who favored highways over public transit and was a proponent of modern architecture. Around this time each year, cities host “Jane’s Walks”. These free, volunteer-led walking tours allow the public to learn about a city’s local architecture, heritage, and culture, as well as issues faced by citizens. To participate in a Jane’s Walk in your city, you can visit janeswalk.org! 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
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    Happy birthday to the late Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)! Since 2007, Toronto has celebrated May 4th as the official Jane Jacobs Day. Jane Jacobs was primarily a journalist and urban planning activist, who advocated for cities to be built with the interests of their people in mind. Jacobs was a critic of “slum clearance” and modern “urban renewal” policies which threatened to replace already-present communities with isolated spaces through the construction of high rise housing. She instead celebrated the preservation of older buildings for their visual diversity, affordability, and their potential for creating mixed-use neighborhoods - as opposed to the single-use standard of zoning laws. Jacobs’ grassroots organizing was very successful in her home cities of New York and Toronto. She was instrumental in preventing the overhaul of Greenwich Village and the building of a Lower Manhattan Expressway, as well as a network of expressways through and around Toronto. Despite a lack of formal training, Jacobs deeply affected a male-dominated field that did not initially welcome her critiques. Jacobs’ book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, in which she coined terms like “social capital” and “mixed primary use”, earned her vitriol from the field of city planning. She especially made an enemy of Robert Moses, a city planning official who favored highways over public transit and was a proponent of modern architecture. Around this time each year, cities host “Jane’s Walks”. These free, volunteer-led walking tours allow the public to learn about a city’s local architecture, heritage, and culture, as well as issues faced by citizens. To participate in a Jane’s Walk in your city, you can visit janeswalk.org! 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
  • Today, we would like to recognize the rich contributions of the AAPI community to American history and culture, in honor of #AsianAmericanandPacificIslanderHeritageMonth. May is also #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, so we are highlighting an artist who is not only an example of the accomplishments of Asian Americans in the US, but is an advocate for mental health in her life and work: Japanese-American artist Yayoi Kusama. Kusama is responsible for art installations such as “Infinity Mirror” rooms, in which lone visitors appear to float in endless starry space, not to mention a whimsical series of oversized, polka dotted gourds. She is one of the world’s most prominent contemporary artists. Kusama currently has installations on view at the New York Botanical Gardens, but this is only the latest in her 61+ years of artmaking. Her career has spanned many mediums, from performance, to painting, to film, poetry, fashion design, and more. Raised in Matsumoto, Japan, Kusama began making art by drawing pumpkins in her schoolyard. When she began experiencing hallucinations of patterned fabric and flowers, she illustrated them as a comforting outlet, and those drawings inspired later works like “Infinity Net”. Kusama has been open about her art as a means of expressing the state of her mental health, crediting her mental health with her ability to create art. As an adult, she moved to New York and joined the avant-garde and pop-art movements of the 1960s. She first found fame with her public “happenings” in which nude performers were painted with her signature polka dots, and has been a major figure in the art world since. Kusama is photographed here by Fred McDarrah. 1) She perches on the Brooklyn Bridge in a polka dot jumpsuit. 2) She stands in a kimono with a paintbrush in hand, before a sign that reads: “Smugglers Painted Free, By: Kusama” 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
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    Today, we would like to recognize the rich contributions of the AAPI community to American history and culture, in honor of #AsianAmericanandPacificIslanderHeritageMonth. May is also #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, so we are highlighting an artist who is not only an example of the accomplishments of Asian Americans in the US, but is an advocate for mental health in her life and work: Japanese-American artist Yayoi Kusama. Kusama is responsible for art installations such as “Infinity Mirror” rooms, in which lone visitors appear to float in endless starry space, not to mention a whimsical series of oversized, polka dotted gourds. She is one of the world’s most prominent contemporary artists. Kusama currently has installations on view at the New York Botanical Gardens, but this is only the latest in her 61+ years of artmaking. Her career has spanned many mediums, from performance, to painting, to film, poetry, fashion design, and more. Raised in Matsumoto, Japan, Kusama began making art by drawing pumpkins in her schoolyard. When she began experiencing hallucinations of patterned fabric and flowers, she illustrated them as a comforting outlet, and those drawings inspired later works like “Infinity Net”. Kusama has been open about her art as a means of expressing the state of her mental health, crediting her mental health with her ability to create art. As an adult, she moved to New York and joined the avant-garde and pop-art movements of the 1960s. She first found fame with her public “happenings” in which nude performers were painted with her signature polka dots, and has been a major figure in the art world since. Kusama is photographed here by Fred McDarrah. 1) She perches on the Brooklyn Bridge in a polka dot jumpsuit. 2) She stands in a kimono with a paintbrush in hand, before a sign that reads: “Smugglers Painted Free, By: Kusama” 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
  • MUUS Collection would like to thank YOU for being one of our first thousand Instagram followers! Thank you for your kind comments, your likes, and your shares - each and every one helps MUUS to grow as a resource for sharing photographic history. We strive to generate dialogues and understanding of American history through the work we collect in our archives - from our #OnThisDay posts, to the photos we license to various institutions, to the research grants we sponsor. We are so excited to continue this important work with all of you, and have much more in store to share 😉💖 On the back of this photo by Andre de Dienes is the inscription: “Rodeo. Happy cowboy, congratulated for winning the bull riding contest” 📸 © Andre de Dienes/MUUS Collection
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    MUUS Collection would like to thank YOU for being one of our first thousand Instagram followers! Thank you for your kind comments, your likes, and your shares - each and every one helps MUUS to grow as a resource for sharing photographic history. We strive to generate dialogues and understanding of American history through the work we collect in our archives - from our #OnThisDay posts, to the photos we license to various institutions, to the research grants we sponsor. We are so excited to continue this important work with all of you, and have much more in store to share 😉💖 On the back of this photo by Andre de Dienes is the inscription: “Rodeo. Happy cowboy, congratulated for winning the bull riding contest” 📸 © Andre de Dienes/MUUS Collection
  • We hope you find some time today to get up and move for International Dance Day! 💃🕺🏻 Pictured here is a pair of dancers getting down at Studio 54, shot by Allan Tannenbaum @soho_blues. For more images of the art of dance, from ballet to the disco, check out our Story! 📸 © Allan Tannenbaum/MUUS Collection
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    We hope you find some time today to get up and move for International Dance Day! 💃🕺🏻 Pictured here is a pair of dancers getting down at Studio 54, shot by Allan Tannenbaum @soho_blues. For more images of the art of dance, from ballet to the disco, check out our Story! 📸 © Allan Tannenbaum/MUUS Collection
  • Today we’re celebrating #NationalGreatPoetryReadingDay by sharing some of our favorite poets of the Beat generation, all captured by photographer Fred McDarrah. We encourage you to take some time today to read, share, or even write some great poetry! 1) Allen Ginsberg (poet, writer, activist, lecturer) at Vietnam Peace March and Rally, 5th Avenue, NYC. March 26, 1966. 2) Ted Joans (jazz poet, surrealist, trumpeter, painter) reading his poems at the Cafe Bizarre on 106 West 3rd St., NYC. May 24, 1959. 3) Jack Kerouac (poet, novelist) reading a passage from “On the Road” at the Poetry Loft, 48 East 3rd St., NYC. February 15, 1959. 4) Bob Kaufman (poet, surrealist, jazz performance artist, satirist) reading The Abomunist Manifesto at the Living Theatre, 530 Sixth Avenue, NYC. August 27, 1960. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
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    Today we’re celebrating #NationalGreatPoetryReadingDay by sharing some of our favorite poets of the Beat generation, all captured by photographer Fred McDarrah. We encourage you to take some time today to read, share, or even write some great poetry! 1) Allen Ginsberg (poet, writer, activist, lecturer) at Vietnam Peace March and Rally, 5th Avenue, NYC. March 26, 1966. 2) Ted Joans (jazz poet, surrealist, trumpeter, painter) reading his poems at the Cafe Bizarre on 106 West 3rd St., NYC. May 24, 1959. 3) Jack Kerouac (poet, novelist) reading a passage from “On the Road” at the Poetry Loft, 48 East 3rd St., NYC. February 15, 1959. 4) Bob Kaufman (poet, surrealist, jazz performance artist, satirist) reading "The Abomunist Manifesto" at the Living Theatre, 530 Sixth Avenue, NYC. August 27, 1960. 📸 © Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection
  • Notice anyone familiar? On the right is Anthony Hopkins on the set of “Silence of the Lambs'', chatting with director Jonathan Demme. Hopkins is in costume as Hannibal Lecter, the role that won him his first “Best Actor” Oscar in 1992. Hopkins was also at the center of an Academy Awards upset this past Sunday night, winning his second Oscar for “Best Actor” over the late Chadwick Boseman. This win, for his role as a man struggling with dementia in “The Father”, has made him the oldest person to win an Oscar at age 83. However, when Hopkins’ victory was announced, his co-star Olivia Colman was unable to give an acceptance speech in his honor - in an unusual turn of events, the broadcast ended abruptly after he won. Instead, Hopkins posted an Instagram video from his home in Wales yesterday, reiterating that he did not expect the award, but was grateful to the Academy, and wished to pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman. 📸 © Ken Regan/MUUS Collection
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    Notice anyone familiar? On the right is Anthony Hopkins on the set of “Silence of the Lambs'', chatting with director Jonathan Demme. Hopkins is in costume as Hannibal Lecter, the role that won him his first “Best Actor” Oscar in 1992. Hopkins was also at the center of an Academy Awards upset this past Sunday night, winning his second Oscar for “Best Actor” over the late Chadwick Boseman. This win, for his role as a man struggling with dementia in “The Father”, has made him the oldest person to win an Oscar at age 83. However, when Hopkins’ victory was announced, his co-star Olivia Colman was unable to give an acceptance speech in his honor - in an unusual turn of events, the broadcast ended abruptly after he won. Instead, Hopkins posted an Instagram video from his home in Wales yesterday, reiterating that he did not expect the award, but was grateful to the Academy, and wished to pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman. 📸 © Ken Regan/MUUS Collection
  • Late one night in 1953, photographer Andre de Dienes received a call from one Marilyn Monroe, summoning him to a quiet valley in Beverly Hills. De Dienes obliged, and Monroe soon stood before him, illuminated only by the headlights of his car. Before his camera, her guard fell. She was unsmiling, pensive, troubled. Rather than the usual bubbly smile or coy smirk aimed at the viewer, Marilyn stared out beyond the lens, as if lost in thought. Here, she grips her coat and gazes into nothing, as if she were all alone in the darkness, and not accompanied by de Dienes. Though the two stayed in touch, this would be her last shoot with him before her untimely death in 1962. From the time he met her as Norma Jean in 1945, de Dienes was enthralled by Marilyn, and the two had multiple photoshoots together through the late ‘40s, until this very last. Now, through the partnership of MUUS and @gettyimages, the products of those shoots are available for commercial and editorial licensing. With Getty, we are proud to present images of Marilyn as she has never been seen before. 📸 © Andre de Dienes/MUUS Collection
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    Late one night in 1953, photographer Andre de Dienes received a call from one Marilyn Monroe, summoning him to a quiet valley in Beverly Hills. De Dienes obliged, and Monroe soon stood before him, illuminated only by the headlights of his car. Before his camera, her guard fell. She was unsmiling, pensive, troubled. Rather than the usual bubbly smile or coy smirk aimed at the viewer, Marilyn stared out beyond the lens, as if lost in thought. Here, she grips her coat and gazes into nothing, as if she were all alone in the darkness, and not accompanied by de Dienes. Though the two stayed in touch, this would be her last shoot with him before her untimely death in 1962. From the time he met her as Norma Jean in 1945, de Dienes was enthralled by Marilyn, and the two had multiple photoshoots together through the late ‘40s, until this very last. Now, through the partnership of MUUS and @gettyimages, the products of those shoots are available for commercial and editorial licensing. With Getty, we are proud to present images of Marilyn as she has never been seen before. 📸 © Andre de Dienes/MUUS Collection
  • Happy #EarthDay! We’re celebrating with some of our favorite landscapes by Andre de Dienes, from his travels through the American Southwest. 1) Yosemite Falls, California 2) Desert mountains in northern Arizona 3) Artist working en plein air at Round Rock, Arizona 4) Horseman riding in Supai, Arizona 5) Looking northwest over the Grand Canyon 6) Palm trees in California 7) Desert rock formations near Chinle, Arizona © Andre de Dienes/MUUS Collection
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    Happy #EarthDay! We’re celebrating with some of our favorite landscapes by Andre de Dienes, from his travels through the American Southwest. 1) Yosemite Falls, California 2) Desert mountains in northern Arizona 3) Artist working en plein air at Round Rock, Arizona 4) Horseman riding in Supai, Arizona 5) Looking northwest over the Grand Canyon 6) Palm trees in California 7) Desert rock formations near Chinle, Arizona © Andre de Dienes/MUUS Collection