Scenes from a Life #23, Aviation #13

Buddy Holly's body lies in front of the wreckage of the Beechcraft Bonanza B35 aircraft that also carried Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. (February 3, 1959)

Scenes from a Life #22

Orson Welles and Cole Porter confer. (1946)

Scenes from a Life #21, America #48

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Scenes from a Life #20

Kennedy administration Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara play squash. (July 1962)

Diptych #10, Dead Presidents #40, Scenes from a Life #19

Top: President John F. Kennedy and Air Force Union of Staff General Curtis LeMay point at a fireworks display staged for the president. (May 4, 1962)

Bottom: Original caption: Swapping his Air Force uniform for a bright sport shirt, General Curtis LeMay, Head of the U. S. Strategic Air Command, sharpens his shooting eye with some target practice at the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia. LeMay sandwiched in the shooting session during the three-day conference on Defense Matters, at the base. (June 17, 1957)

Scenes from a Life #18, Age of Print #8, The Automobile #16

The Los Angeles Times reports the death of Ernie Kovacs (January 13, 1962)

Scenes from a Life #17, Architecture #24, Art #14

The New York Herald-Tribune documents Philip Johnson and Alan Blackburn's exit from the Museum of Modern Art
(excerpted from December 18, 1934 article)

Scenes from a Life #16

obituary from the New York Times (September 13, 1930)

Scenes from a Life #15, Aviation #10, Aphorisms #6

Nous ne demandons pas à être éternels, mais à ne pas voir les actes et les choses tout à coup perdre leur sens. Le vide qui nous entoure se montre alors...

Antoine de St. Exupéry, Vol de Nuit (1931)

Pictured in his P-38, at a airfield in Corsica, shortly before his death (1944)

Scopitone #29, Scenes from a Life #14

Elvis Presley sings the Beatles' "Yesterday" in rehearsal (1970)

War #5, Scenes from a Life #13, Catalogue of the Vanished #7

Ruins of Cloth Hall in Ypres, Belgium. Diary compiled by Ethel Anderson (1918-19)

Scopitone #25, Scenes from a Life #12

Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan sing "I Still Miss Someone"
From Eat the Document (filmed 1966)

Scenes from a Life #11, Cinema #27

Rita Hayworth, Christopher Welles, and a maritime Orson Welles, perhaps blocking out scenes to come for The Lady from Shanghai.
Peter Stackpole, photographer, Life (1945)

Scenes from a Life #10

Walker Evans (February 1937)
Edwin Locke, photographer

Love #14, Scenes from a Life #9

17th September 1927
Lovely, unexpected, hopeless summer's evening. Resolve: to live more and more in the present, cultivating especially intensity and inconstancy in personal relations, to break free, so far as loyalty permits, from all unions that chain one to the past, while retaining them in so far as they provide a commentary, otherwise to fall in love as impermanently as possible with whoever is nearest, to study life not death, the present not the past, the actual not the literary. Only by giving the whole of myself to the moment can I make it give its best to me. A rapid series of unbearable partings is the best proof that one is living--to live in the present is the most provident of all ways of life, for by that alone can one create a valuable past. "Pas de recherche sans temps perdu"---no chronicles without wasted time.

Cyril Connolly, "England My England"

Godard #7, Scenes from a Life #8, Cinema #19

JLG and Jean-Paul Belmondo prepare for shooting the final scene of Pierrot le fou.

...Pierrot n'est pas vraiment un film. C'est plutôt une tentative de cinéma. Et le cinéma, en faisant rendre gorge à la réalité, nous rappelle qu'il faut tenter de vivre.
JLG, Cahiers du cinéma, no. 171 (October 1965)

Scenes from a Life #7

Lee Marvin shoots pool at the Playboy Mansion (early 1970s)

America #20, Scenes from a Life #6

A Negro conjure-doctor. Illustration, Folk beliefs of the Southern Negro, by Newbell Niles Puckett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Western Reserve University. (1926)

Scenes from a Life #5, Cinema #6

Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich on the set of Dishonored (1931)

Scenes from a Life #4, Scopitone #14

Boris Vian