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August 22：Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leni Riefenstahl, Alexander Calder, Dorothy Parker



Henri Cartier-Bresson was born #onthisday in 1908. After travelling to India in 1947, he documented the days immediately preceding and following Gandhi's death in an extraordinary series of photographs, currently on view at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York https://www.apollo-magazine.com/how-henri-cartier-bresson-…/
How Henri Cartier-Bresson bore witness to Gandhi’s death | Apollo Magazine
The photographer met with Gandhi just 90 minutes before his assassination – and his camera would create a fitting record of an event that shocked the…
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Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. Wikipedia
Born: August 22, 1893, Long Branch, New Jersey, United States
Died: June 7, 1967, New York City, New York, United States

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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Résumé Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.



Dorothy Parker ( 1893 –1967)；Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This?
http://hcbooks.blogspot.tw/…/…/dorothy-parker-1893-1967.html


Dorothy Parker was born on this day in 1893. She has “fascinated generations with her wit, flair, talent, and near genius for self-destruction,” writes Robert Gottlieb in this review of eight books.


Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker
She struck a chord with the public: from the start, her voice spoke to a wide range of readers. Her generally sardonic, often angry, occasionally brutal view of men and women—of love and marriage, of cauterized despair—triggered…
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“I always thought I was born—at least my mother always told me so—on August 22, 1898."—Alexander Calder. There has been a lasting confusion if Calder was born on July 22 or August 22. Even though his birth certificate states July 22, his family insisted on the latter date. TheCalder Foundation also researched the hand-written Birth Register, the official ledger of the Board of Health, and found the same July date—though on the Return of Births, it looks as if a mistake was m⋯⋯
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Although being cast as Adolf Hitler's favourite film-maker later killed off Riefenstahl's career for good, it was the propaganda that sealed her reputation as the greatest female film-maker of the 20th century



Leni Riefenstahl stamped on history the iconography of Nazi Germany
Riefenstahl was born on August 22nd 1902
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