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Dean Frey

@dean.bsky.social

aka Deny Fear 📷 David Soyer’s photo of “Motif provençal”, Alsatian textile from 1825 Profile pic: Legendary creature, May 1968 Atelier populaire "And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling." - Bruce Chatwin

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Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Remembering Michael Ballhaus on his birthday 🎂 On the set of The Age of Innocence with Martin Scorsese 📷 Phillip V. Caruso, 1993 "Much of the visual dynamism associated with Fassbinder and Scorsese must be credited also to Ballhaus." - Ryan Gilbey #filmsky

Director & crew hang out under an umbrella during shooting
Bradshaw Lentz@shawbie.bsky.social · 10h ago

I don't keep a list, but Christopher Pratt would definitely be on mine. This one reminds me of the cottage on the Cape my aunt has rented for the summers my whole life, my mom had this exhibition poster when I was growing up, I think it traveled to Charleston, or somewhere in the South.

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Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

My Mount Rushmore of Canadian Painters Tom Thomson Lawren Harris Jean-Paul Riopelle Emily Carr All paintings from the National Gallery of Canada

Tom Thomson's painting Autumn Birches and Poplars, Canoe Lake, c. 1914-1915 Birch trees with autumn leaves.
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Tom Thomson would have been a Group Of Seven member, but for his untimely death in 1917. Lawren Harris wrote that Thomson was "a part of the movement before we pinned a label on it". 🎨 Northern Lights 1916 or 1917 National Gallery of Canada

Painting of a winter scene, with green Northern Lights on the horizon.
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Tom Thomson by Blair Laing, National Archives "His robust brush strokes & thick spatterings of colour suggest the passion & determination of someone who has discovered his true subject, as well as the urgency of someone who feels he hasn’t much time to capture it." - Ross King

Thomson, with a pipe, stands next to a string of large trout he's caught.
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Remembering Tom Thomson on his birthday 🎂 🎨 Northern River, 1914-15 David Milne said Thomson "took Canadian painting with him to the bottom of Canoe Lake." "I rather think it would have been wiser to have taken your ten most prominent Canadians & sunk them in Canoe Lake - and saved Tom Thomson."

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Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

For Herb Ellis's birthday, this great photo of Oscar Peterson &, from behind, Herb Ellis & Ray Brown 📷 Hans Buter Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 5, 1957

Ellis & Brown in the foreground, with Oscar playing the piano under a stage light.
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Remembering Herb Ellis on his birthday 🎂 With Ray Brown & Oscar Peterson 📷 Jack Vartoogian, 1996 "His style mixed the harmonic sophistication of bebop with the earthy directness of the blues & seasoned the blend with a twang more typical of country music." - Peter Keepnews

Ellis plays his guitar, with Oscar & Ray playing behind him.
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Remembering William Schuman on his birthday 🎂 📷 Jack Mitchell, 1984 "I no longer work with key centers, but the music is always melodic and has a sense of line. My music can always be sung. And I have never written a note in my life that was not deeply felt."

Schuman in a suit & tie, looking at the camera
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Hedda Sterne Self-Portrait, c. 1940 "Sometimes I react to immediate visible reality and sometimes I am prompted by ideas, but at all times I have been moved by the music of the way things are."

Drawing of Sterne in a low-cut dress, her hair up.
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Hedda Sterne, when she heard of Mark Rothko's suicide, said "Who was this man, Rothko, who killed my friend?" 📷 Nina Leen, "The Irascibles", 1951. Rothko is sitting on the right, the only artist with glasses; guess which one is Sterne.

Posed portrait of 14 male artists, all wearing suits & ties. Standing on a stool behind & above them is Hedda Sterne, with her arms folded.
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Hedda Sterne by Inge Morath, 1959 "I see myself as a well-working lens, a perceiver of something that exists independently of me: don’t look at me, look at what I’ve found."

Black & white portrait of Sterne in front of one of her paintings.
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Hedda Sterne by Margaret Bourke-White, 1947 "Hedda was always searching, never satisfied. She had many ways; most artists just have one way to go." - Betty Parsons

Sterne poses in front of one of her paintings
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Another shot of Hedda Sterne by Evelyn Hofer, c. 1952. "One of the hallmarks of Miss Sterne's paintings and drawings is her ambiguity. Never can we look at her work and pinpoint it with one word, one idea." - David L. Shirey

Another shot of Sterne, this time without Poussin