Showing posts with label last photo of Oscar Levant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label last photo of Oscar Levant. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Best photo of Oscar Levant EVER






Taken by Richard Avedon, shortly before Levant's death at 65. It's all there in the face. The craggy survivor: stepped-on, grimly resolute, sweet-eyed as a child, and yet with the tinge of desperation. People didn't give up on him. I don't know personally if I could have stood being around him, but then you never know: depends on whether there was a piano in the room.



http://margaretgunnng.blogspot.ca/2013/04/the-glass-character-synopsis.html

http://members.shaw.ca/margaret_gunning/betterthanlife.htm