Libs Life

Steven Marshall

Brigitte Bardot playing with her dogs on the beach, Saint-Tropez, 1974. Photograph by Jack Garofalo.

Vintage photos of classic beauties taken by Kenneth Alexander.

Vintage photographs of actors posing with chimps.

Brother Love, New York City, 1976. Photograph by Jill Freedman.

Photos of Irène Tunc in the 1950s and ’60s.

Almost life size, the pillow portraits were real photographs printed on the fabric by a photographic-printing process. The material was first treated with a sensitizing solution, then exposed under the negative, and finally developed and fixed. Movie-star draperies, upholstery, and dress fabrics were being manufactured in a similar way.

Cary Grant 1940

CARY GRANT as Mortimer Brewster in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) dir. Frank Capra

CARY GRANT as Johnnie Aysgarth in SUSPICION (1941) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

New York in the 1930s by Samuel Gottscho.

Children playing, Amsterdam, 1964. Photograph by Leonard Freed.