Francesco Scavullo

Ravi Shankar

1977

The Soul Together concert at Madison Square Garden on June 28, 1968 featured a roster of Atlantic recording artists, all of whom donated their time. Proceeds benefitted the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund. The acts included Aretha Franklin, Sonny and Cher, King Curtis, Joe Tex, Sam and Dave, The Rascals, and Sly Stone...

The French director Claude Chabrol was one of the Cahiers du Cinéma critics who became filmmakers. Chabrol’s film Le Beau Serge (1958) is considered to be the first film of the Frenc...

Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, born in Parma and the son of poets, was himself a published poet at the age of eighteen. He moved into films at twenty as an assistant director to Pier Paolo Pasolini, himself a poet turned filmmaker. When Jack Robinson photographed the twenty-eight year old Bertolucci on April 12, 1969, he had not yet started filming on The Conformist (1970) featuring the actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Dominique Sanda. In Vogue, Bertolucci is described as “a shy man who moves the way he speaks and smiles, gently but cautiously, with sleepy brown eyes on the lookout for the worst”. As a filmmaker, he would achieve notoriety for Last Tango in Paris...

Artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is seen in this photograph from 1965. Pictured with Warhol is the poet and artist Gerard Malanga with his trademark bullwhip. Silver gelatin print o...