Show threadthe roamerAug 28, 2025

@lydiaschoch

Now watching the magnificent Young and Innocent (1937), another classic from Hitchcock's 1930s productions. There are several versions on youtube.

Nova Pilbeam beautifully conveys the supreme self-confidence of a well brought-up girl from the British upper middle classes, who is forced by circumstances to break all the rules. A most civilised version of anarchism!

Wikipedia tells me that Pilbeam stopped making films in the 1940s but lived until 2015. Her first husband was a great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Connections, connections!

#AlfredHitchcock #YoungAndInnocent #NovaPilbeam #AlfredLordTennyson #TheUpperClasses

the roamerAug 3, 2025

Bibi at the Restaurant d'Eden Roc at Cap d'Antibes, 1920.

By Jacques Henri Lartigue.

One of the greatest photographs ever, by one of the truly great photographers. It was taken in the early autochrome colour process.

Photography is documentary by nature. This may be gritty realism, or detached archival work, or, as here, a last glimpse at a vanishing world of free enjoyment of life afforded to the upper classes. This was taken in 1920. The great war was over, and the last big wave of the Spanish Flu had just passed. There is dread behind the luxury.

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jacques-henri-lartigue-bibi-au-restaurant-deden-roc-cap-dantibes

#photography #JacquesHenriLartigue #beauty #TheUpperClasses

Jacques-Henri Lartigue | Bibi au Restaurant d'Eden Roc Cap d'Antibes (1920) | Artsy

From Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Bibi au Restaurant d'Eden Roc Cap d'Antibes (1920)