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Jack Robinson Art

American, 1928-1997

Jack Robinson, Jr. was born in Meridian, MS on September 18, 1928 to Jack Robinson, Sr. and Euline Jones. After graduating from Clarksdale High School in 1946, Jack moved to New Orleans to attend Tulane University. In 1950, he began his professional career in photography. He captured the allure of the French Quarter and its nightlife, as well as the Mardi Gras festivities. In 1955, he moved to New York City, where he quickly became noted for his fashion photography. By 1959, he had snapped the cover for a special fashion edition of Life magazine and went on to work with Carrie Donovan at The New York Times until 1965. When Carrie moved to Vogue magazine, Jack followed, and his work was published in the magazine over 500 times between 1965 and 1972. Like so many other creative geniuses, Jack was inwardly tormented. He was gay during a time when homosexuality was not socially accepted, and this caused him great suffering. He also ran in the fast lane with Andy Warhol and company, and he eventually succumbed to the temptations of his social scene. As his dependence upon alcohol worsened, his career dwindled and his life deteriorated. Finally, in 1972, broke, addicted, and depressed, Jack moved back to Memphis, TN. He got clean, took a job as a stained glass designer, and left his life in New York City behind. In November 1997, Jack was diagnosed with cancer. He passed away within a month. Though Jack's career spanned only 17 years, they were pivotal years in contemporary culture. He documented the social changes that occurred in the 1960s and early 70s, as reflected by fashion, art, the written word, stage and cinema, and music. From the Beat Generation, as an insider and a participant, Jack captured on film what the world will remember for generations. “I look at these photos of some acquaintances, some friends, and some I don't know, and I feel closer to them than I ever imagined...all thanks to dear Jack. Jack Robinson, a man with whom I will be connected always—always in my heart.” -Cybill Shepherd “Jack was a joy to work with. He was very low key and gave his subjects freedom to evolve according to the spirit of the moment, which gives his work a refreshing spontaneity.” -Gloria Vanderbilt

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Sol LeWitt
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper Edition of 25 Estate signed and stamped 18.5" x 18.5" print on 20" x 24" paper We print on Thursdays. Prints typically ship ou...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Hubert de Givenchy, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Fashion designer and aristocrat Hubert de Givenchy, technically Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy, prepares his models for an upcoming sh...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Marisa Berenson, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Marisa Berenson, was related on her mother’s side to the great couturier Schiaparelli and through her father to the distinguished art historian Bernard Berenson. A celebrated fashion...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Diana Vreeland, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Diana Vreeland photographed by Jack Robinson in her office at Conde Nast, March 28, 1968. Vreeland had asked that Jack take her portrait for an article that would appear in the the ...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Robert Moog, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Musician and Inventor Robert Moog is seen in this photograph from January 7, 1970. Trained in physics, electrical engineering, and engineering ...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Warren Beatty, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Warren Beatty dropped out of Northwestern University to study acting with Stella Adler. He made his film debut in Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass (1961). In 1967, Beatty teamed ...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

The Everly Brothers
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed Phil and Don Everly, The Everly Brothers, for their album cover in 1958. That same year, their debut album on Cadence Record...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Liza Minnelli, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Just three years before Jack Robinson took these photographs of Liza Minnelli in 1968, the nineteen-year-old star had become the youngest Tony winner eve...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Tina Turner on Stage
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Tina Turner (b.1939), born as Anna Mae Bullock, began singing professionally as a teenager after meeting the established performer Ike Turner (1931–2007). ...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Helmut Berger
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Helmut Berger (b.1944) was photographed by Jack Robinson for Vogue magazine on December 10, 1969 and a “People Are Talking About …” feature of the magazi...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film

Warren Beatty, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Warren Beatty (b.1937) dropped out of Northwestern University to study acting with Stella Adler. He made his film debut in Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Leonard Cohen
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Leonard Cohen (b.1934), Canadian songwriter, folk singer, poet, novelist, and philosopher, came from a middle-class Jewish home in Westmount, Montreal, his father a successful clothing-store owner. Cohen would go on to study at McGill University and then Columbia University. He published his first book of poetry in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. This photograph was taken by Jack Robinson on August 9, 1967 a month after Cohen’s appearance at the Newport Folk Festival...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Dennis Hopper
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Actor and director Dennis Hopper from December 1967. Although already known for earlier films such as “Giant”, Hopper would not become a major star until “Easy Rider” was released 18...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Carrie Donovan
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Carrie Donovan (1928–2001) photographed shortly after joining Diana Vreeland’s staff at Vogue. A graduate of Parsons in 1950, Donovan had previously worked for The New York Times be...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson snapped this shot of the beautiful Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1965. Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper E...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Dirk Bogarde, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Dirk Bogarde had, by the time Jack Robinson photographed him on January 17, 1968, survived a long period as the pin-up idol of postwar British cinema to b...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Nuns
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack photographed these nuns, likely from the Ursaline convent, with their matching black umbrellas walking down a rainy New Orleans street in the early 1950s. Silver gelatin print...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Gunga Den
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
This Mardi Gras image from New Orleans in 1954 shows partygoers as they pass The Gunga Den on Bourbon Street. The club was legendary - Truman Capote was often quoted that The Gunga ...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Girl Before a Mardi Gras
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
These Mardi Gras partiers are wearing impressive homemade masks inspired by Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galer...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Good Eats, No Nonsense
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Sadie Boehm and her sister ran a lunch counter in Jack's office building when he was a graphic artist for the Charles Dolce Ad Agency in New Orleans. Ser...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

World's Fair 1964 Beetle
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack photographed this sleek, shiny Volkswagen Beetle with its NY 1964 World's Fair license plate in his New York City neighborhood. Jack loved the unusual view of everyday objects t...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

The Who Jump
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The Who, one of the greatest rock bands of all time, began in 1964 and, when photographed on June 5, 1969, had just released their landmark rock opera Tommy. In a “People Are Talking About …” feature of Vogue, Tommy was praised as “celebrating the quiet divinity of explosion”, seriously extending rock’s musical range. The Who were John Entwistle...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Show Me Your Pontiac
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack photographed this Mardi Gras reveler serving up some serious attitude on the hood of a Pontiac in 1954. Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper Edition of 25 Estat...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film

Glenda Jackson, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Glenda Jackson studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for four years. Jack Robinson photographed Jackson on January 16, 1971 for a “People Are Talking About …” feature of Vogue and soon after, she would win her first Academy Award as Best Actress for her performance in Ken Russell...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Henry Geldzahler
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Henry Geldzahler, curator of Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is photographed here from September, 1969. Geldzahler had close relat...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Carly Simon
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Singer Carly Simon photographed in this fashion shoot in July, 1971. Simon had just turned 26 at the time. Her debut album had been released the previous F...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Bernardo Bertolucci, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
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...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino of the Joffrey Ballet are seen in this photograph from December, 1968. Joffrey had founded his ballet company some 15 years earlier and Arpino was one of his first...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film

Ann Jenner
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Ann Jenner, one of the brightest dancers of the Royal Ballet at the time, is pictured here from a photoshoot in 1969. She was 25 at the time. Silver gel...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Tim Buckley
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed American singer and songwriter Tim Buckley in his NYC studio in November, 1968. At the time, he had released two records and was recording his third. Vogue called him the “found poet of new folk.” Tim Buckley is the biological father of Jeff Buckley...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

1960s Beale Street
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Legendary Beale Street in 1965. Now a popular tourist area with bars, restaurants, and music halls, Beale Street in 1965 was still open to vehicle traffic and was an important area f...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Chet Atkins at the Grand Ole Opry
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed Chet Atkins on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1958. He was in town to shoot the cover photographs for the Everly Brothers...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Sam and Dave at Madison Square Garden
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
R&B and Soul act Sam and Dave perform during the Soul Together concert at Madison Square Garden in June, 1968. The duo are known for their powerh...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Tony Williams
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
American jazz drummer Tony Williams pictured here from late 1969. At only 23 years old, he had already played with Miles Davis for five years and had just started his own group, the ...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Paul McCartney
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The Beatles announced the formation of their record label, Apple Records, at a press conference at the Americana Hotel in New York in May, 1968. This photograph of Paul McCartney...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Sam and Dave "Horns High"
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
R&B and Soul act Sam and Dave perform during the Soul Together concert at Madison Square Garden in June, 1968. The concert featured a roster of Atlantic recording artists, all of who...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Prism
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack took this photograph of a model distorted through a prism in the early 1960s. In his personal work, he enjoyed shooting the human body from unexpected angles, the images at time...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Dominique Sanda
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
French actress Dominique Sanda was only 19 when this photograph was taken in October, 1970, the same month her film “The Conformist” was released in Ita...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Tom Wolfe
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Tom Wolfe (b.1931), from Richmond, Virginia, spurned academic life after receiving his Yale doctorate to become a reporter, ultimately at the New York Herald Tribune. He originated New Journalism, a staccato-adjective-laden style that reinvented subordinate clauses when writing a feature for Esquire on custom cars...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Masquerade at Dixie's
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
These Mardi Gras partiers in matching costumes are entering the front doors of Dixie's Bar of Music. Dixie's was a safe space for the gay community of the French Quarter at a time wh...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Past Her Prime
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
This party girl appears to have over-imbibed and now takes a rest (or a snooze) on the steps at Dixie's Bar of Music during Mardi Gras, 1954. Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Suzy Parker
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The red-headed Suzy Parker (1932–2003), the highest paid and most famous American model in the fifties, was the fourth of four daughters from San Antonio, ...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Clint Eastwood
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed Eastwood on July 10, 1969 for a “Men in Vogue” feature, Paint Your Wagon, Eastwood’s only musical, was about to be released. In the year previous, just to show his prodigious output and his versatility, Eastwood had released three movies, Hang ’Em High, a western, Coogan’s Bluff, a police mystery, and Where Eagles Dare, a WWII thriller. In the following year, he would begin filming his first role from the director’s chair, Play Misty for Me...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Street Vendor
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack observed this street vendor organizing his wares on a bright day in 1950s New Orleans. His baskets appear to be bubbling over with grapes. Silver ...
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1950s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Anthony Perkins, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Anthony Perkins was the son of the distinguished Broadway actor Osgood Perkins. He won an Academy Award nomination in just his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). In 1960, he appeared as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho, and from then on, Perkins was strongly identified with that one role. When photographed by Jack Robinson on May 21, 1968, Perkins had just made Pretty Poison playing a mentally disturbed man opposite Tuesday Weld. He was married to the photographer Berry Berenson...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

David Hemmings, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
David Hemmings, born in Guildford, England, was initially a boy singer and protégé of the composer Benjamin Britten. He appeared in juvenile and post-adolescent roles in a number of films before attaining stardom as an archetypal catalytic figure of “Swinging London,” a fashion photographer, in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966), appearing in a memorable scene opposite Veruschka. He then appeared in the Hollywood version of the musical Camelot (1967) and also in a heroic role in The Charge of the Light Brigade...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

James Caan, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Born in the Bronx, played football at Michigan State, and for several years a rodeo rider nicknamed “the Jewish cowboy,” James Caan was one of the most exciting and rugged stars to emerge in the sixties. He was photographed by Jack Robinson on October 25, 1971 for a Vogue “People Are Talking About …” feature. Caan is described as the “unexploded star of the movie version of The Godfather (1972)” and “a real comer who has yet to play a film role that needs his kind of acting muscle”. Caan had made his debut as a sailor in Irma la Douce...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Claude Chabrol, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
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...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Julie Christie, Silver Gelatin Print
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Julie Christie was born in Assam, India where her father was a British tea planter. Educated in England and France, she developed into a stage actress, ...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Loudon Wainwright III
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Singer, songwriter Loudon Wainwright, III is seen here from a September, 1971 session. The 24 year old Wainwright had already released two albums by the time this photograph was take...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Edward Ruscha
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Artist Edward Ruscha as he was photographed in January, 1970. Ruscha had become well known several years earlier for his drawings and artist books and ha...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Procol Harum
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack took this studio portrait of British rock group Procol Harum in April, 1969. Their first album had been a huge success in 1967 and when this picture was taken, their third albu...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

The Incredible String Band
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Studio portrait of the folk-rock group The Incredible String Band from December, 1968. Their third album, “The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter” had just b...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Michael Caine
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack photographed British actor Michael Caine in an apartment in New York City in December, 1966. 1966 was a big year for Caine, with two hits: "Gambit" ...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Robin Butler
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Model Robin Butler shows off a fur coat on a chilly New York City bridge in October, 1967. Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper Edition of 25 Estate signed and stamp...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Harry's Loans
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Signage on Beale Street in Memphis, TN in 1965. Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper Edition of 25 Estate signed and stamped 14" x 21" print on 20" x 24" paper We ...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Handy Park (Beale Street)
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Handy Park on Beale Street in Memphis, TN is named for musician and composer W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues." Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper Edition of 2...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Henri Langlois
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Studio portrait of Turkish-born film archivist Henri Langlois from January, 1969. Langlois was co-founder and director of the Cinémathèque Française and has been credited with being ...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Roberta Flack
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Roberta Flack, vocal jazz and soul singer photographed in November, 1969. This photograph was taken after her first release “First Take” which contained ...
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1960s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Lily Tomlin as "Ernestine"
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Legendary comedian Lily Tomlin appears in character as telephone operator "Ernestine," a recurring character on the sketch comedy television show "L...
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1970s Jack Robinson Art

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

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