Dean Frey
@dean.bsky.social
aka Deny Fear
🎨 Robert Longo
No Threat, 2018
charcoal on mounted paper
Profile:
Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
🎨 Robert Longo
No Threat, 2018
charcoal on mounted paper
Profile:
Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
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Dean Frey
@dean.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Another cup of coffee? No thanks, I've had plenty... Ha ha ha ha ha! I'm just kidding. Keep 'em coming. ☕️☕️☕️
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
Remembering Claes Oldenburg on his birthday 🎂
📷 Robert R. McElroy, 1961
"I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street."
📷 Robert R. McElroy, 1961
"I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street."
January 29, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Remembering Claes Oldenburg on his birthday 🎂
📷 Robert R. McElroy, 1961
"I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street."
📷 Robert R. McElroy, 1961
"I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street."
Remembering Colette on her birthday 🎂
📷 Gisèle Freund, Paris, 1939
"Her lack of concern for social convention, accepted social morality or whatever strangers might think of her was not a rebellious stand: it was her true nature."
- Mavis Gallant
📷 Gisèle Freund, Paris, 1939
"Her lack of concern for social convention, accepted social morality or whatever strangers might think of her was not a rebellious stand: it was her true nature."
- Mavis Gallant
January 29, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Remembering Colette on her birthday 🎂
📷 Gisèle Freund, Paris, 1939
"Her lack of concern for social convention, accepted social morality or whatever strangers might think of her was not a rebellious stand: it was her true nature."
- Mavis Gallant
📷 Gisèle Freund, Paris, 1939
"Her lack of concern for social convention, accepted social morality or whatever strangers might think of her was not a rebellious stand: it was her true nature."
- Mavis Gallant
Remembering Ronnie Scott on his birthday 🎂
📷 Max Adelman, 1985
"I was Ireland with the Ted Heath band when a chap came by & asked if we played requests. Ted told him we would try & asked him what he would like to hear. 'Oh, anything at all,' said the Irishman."
📷 Max Adelman, 1985
"I was Ireland with the Ted Heath band when a chap came by & asked if we played requests. Ted told him we would try & asked him what he would like to hear. 'Oh, anything at all,' said the Irishman."
January 29, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Remembering Ronnie Scott on his birthday 🎂
📷 Max Adelman, 1985
"I was Ireland with the Ted Heath band when a chap came by & asked if we played requests. Ted told him we would try & asked him what he would like to hear. 'Oh, anything at all,' said the Irishman."
📷 Max Adelman, 1985
"I was Ireland with the Ted Heath band when a chap came by & asked if we played requests. Ted told him we would try & asked him what he would like to hear. 'Oh, anything at all,' said the Irishman."
Happy birthday Sarah McLachlan 🎂
📷 Bill Tompkins, 1999
"I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough depending on who you spoke to."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwpm...
📷 Bill Tompkins, 1999
"I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough depending on who you spoke to."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwpm...
January 29, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Happy birthday Sarah McLachlan 🎂
📷 Bill Tompkins, 1999
"I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough depending on who you spoke to."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwpm...
📷 Bill Tompkins, 1999
"I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough depending on who you spoke to."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwpm...
"I hand Neil Young his guitar. He writes 'Ohio.' I call Nash & say get to the studio now. We make the record, give it to the president of the company, Ahmet Ertegun. He takes it straight to New York & it's out within a week."
- David Crosby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Pr...
- David Crosby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Pr...
January 29, 2026 at 12:07 AM
"I hand Neil Young his guitar. He writes 'Ohio.' I call Nash & say get to the studio now. We make the record, give it to the president of the company, Ahmet Ertegun. He takes it straight to New York & it's out within a week."
- David Crosby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Pr...
- David Crosby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Pr...
Reposted by Dean Frey
Reposted by Dean Frey
A Mikhail Baryshnikov photograph from a performance of "Crises", from his book Merce My Way, 2006
January 28, 2026 at 12:55 AM
A Mikhail Baryshnikov photograph from a performance of "Crises", from his book Merce My Way, 2006
Reposted by Dean Frey
Mikhail Baryshnikov's photograph of Chen-Wei Lee of Bat Sheva Dance Company, 2011
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Mikhail Baryshnikov's photograph of Chen-Wei Lee of Bat Sheva Dance Company, 2011
Reposted by Dean Frey
Another wonderful photograph by Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I wanted the audience to see, to be able to imagine, the movement before and after, not just the frozen moment."
"I wanted the audience to see, to be able to imagine, the movement before and after, not just the frozen moment."
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Another wonderful photograph by Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I wanted the audience to see, to be able to imagine, the movement before and after, not just the frozen moment."
"I wanted the audience to see, to be able to imagine, the movement before and after, not just the frozen moment."
Reposted by Dean Frey
Mikhail Baryshnikov is a remarkable photographer.
"He dwells in the realm he knows best — dance — and his style evokes the work of impressionist painters."
- Soraya Nadia McDonald
"He dwells in the realm he knows best — dance — and his style evokes the work of impressionist painters."
- Soraya Nadia McDonald
January 28, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Mikhail Baryshnikov is a remarkable photographer.
"He dwells in the realm he knows best — dance — and his style evokes the work of impressionist painters."
- Soraya Nadia McDonald
"He dwells in the realm he knows best — dance — and his style evokes the work of impressionist painters."
- Soraya Nadia McDonald
Happy birthday Alan Alda 🎂
With Gary Burghoff on the set of M*A*S*H
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1978
“I said to my wife, Arlene, ‘I can’t do it because it’s going to be made in California and we live in New Jersey. Who knows, this thing could run a whole year.'”
With Gary Burghoff on the set of M*A*S*H
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1978
“I said to my wife, Arlene, ‘I can’t do it because it’s going to be made in California and we live in New Jersey. Who knows, this thing could run a whole year.'”
January 28, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Happy birthday Alan Alda 🎂
With Gary Burghoff on the set of M*A*S*H
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1978
“I said to my wife, Arlene, ‘I can’t do it because it’s going to be made in California and we live in New Jersey. Who knows, this thing could run a whole year.'”
With Gary Burghoff on the set of M*A*S*H
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1978
“I said to my wife, Arlene, ‘I can’t do it because it’s going to be made in California and we live in New Jersey. Who knows, this thing could run a whole year.'”
Reposted by Dean Frey
Medici Princess
Joseph Cornell
wood box construction–wood, printed paper collage, paint, glass, metal, and mirror, 1952
(via bradfordart)
Joseph Cornell
wood box construction–wood, printed paper collage, paint, glass, metal, and mirror, 1952
(via bradfordart)
January 28, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Medici Princess
Joseph Cornell
wood box construction–wood, printed paper collage, paint, glass, metal, and mirror, 1952
(via bradfordart)
Joseph Cornell
wood box construction–wood, printed paper collage, paint, glass, metal, and mirror, 1952
(via bradfordart)
Remembering William P. Gottlieb on his birthday 🎂
📷 With Tony Pastor in a shot by Gottlieb's wife Delia, c. 1946-8
"Again & again, he catches the precise moment when the musician's face is suffused with effort & emotion & beauty: the music is there."
- Whitney Balliett
📷 With Tony Pastor in a shot by Gottlieb's wife Delia, c. 1946-8
"Again & again, he catches the precise moment when the musician's face is suffused with effort & emotion & beauty: the music is there."
- Whitney Balliett
January 28, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Remembering William P. Gottlieb on his birthday 🎂
📷 With Tony Pastor in a shot by Gottlieb's wife Delia, c. 1946-8
"Again & again, he catches the precise moment when the musician's face is suffused with effort & emotion & beauty: the music is there."
- Whitney Balliett
📷 With Tony Pastor in a shot by Gottlieb's wife Delia, c. 1946-8
"Again & again, he catches the precise moment when the musician's face is suffused with effort & emotion & beauty: the music is there."
- Whitney Balliett
Reposted by Dean Frey
It's not his best, but his turn as George Plimpton in Paper Lion seems to have been forgotten, and it's a fine version of Plimpton's original book:
January 28, 2026 at 3:27 PM
It's not his best, but his turn as George Plimpton in Paper Lion seems to have been forgotten, and it's a fine version of Plimpton's original book:
Reposted by Dean Frey
Reposted by Dean Frey
Reposted by Dean Frey
Remembering Tom Verlaine, frontman of the influential New York punk rock band Television, died in Manhattan 3 years ago today at the age of 73 after a short illness.
📸 by Gus Stewart
#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #television #tomverlaine #history #punkrockhistory #otd
📸 by Gus Stewart
#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #television #tomverlaine #history #punkrockhistory #otd
January 28, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Remembering Tom Verlaine, frontman of the influential New York punk rock band Television, died in Manhattan 3 years ago today at the age of 73 after a short illness.
📸 by Gus Stewart
#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #television #tomverlaine #history #punkrockhistory #otd
📸 by Gus Stewart
#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #television #tomverlaine #history #punkrockhistory #otd
These things come in threes:
- Hitchcock never winning a Best Director Oscar
- Borges never winning the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Bill Belichick not being named a First Ballot Hall of Famer
- Hitchcock never winning a Best Director Oscar
- Borges never winning the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Bill Belichick not being named a First Ballot Hall of Famer
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 AM
These things come in threes:
- Hitchcock never winning a Best Director Oscar
- Borges never winning the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Bill Belichick not being named a First Ballot Hall of Famer
- Hitchcock never winning a Best Director Oscar
- Borges never winning the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Bill Belichick not being named a First Ballot Hall of Famer
Reposted by Dean Frey
Far too often I feel like Twyla when what really I want is to be Mikhail
Mikhail Baryshnikov & Twyla Tharp in a great portrait by Richard Avedon, 1975
January 28, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Far too often I feel like Twyla when what really I want is to be Mikhail
Happy birthday Mikhail Baryshnikov 🎂
📷 Eve Arnold, 1987
"I never gamble on cards or casinos or horses because my life is a constant gamble on stage. And I hate to lose, like anyone else."
📷 Eve Arnold, 1987
"I never gamble on cards or casinos or horses because my life is a constant gamble on stage. And I hate to lose, like anyone else."
January 28, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Happy birthday Mikhail Baryshnikov 🎂
📷 Eve Arnold, 1987
"I never gamble on cards or casinos or horses because my life is a constant gamble on stage. And I hate to lose, like anyone else."
📷 Eve Arnold, 1987
"I never gamble on cards or casinos or horses because my life is a constant gamble on stage. And I hate to lose, like anyone else."
Remembering Jerome Kern on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Landry, 1944
"Richard Rodgers said of all the great songs he did not write, the one he wished he had was 'All The Things You Are'. Arthur Schwartz went further, calling it 'the greatest song ever written'."
- Gerald Bordman
📷 Bob Landry, 1944
"Richard Rodgers said of all the great songs he did not write, the one he wished he had was 'All The Things You Are'. Arthur Schwartz went further, calling it 'the greatest song ever written'."
- Gerald Bordman
January 28, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Remembering Jerome Kern on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Landry, 1944
"Richard Rodgers said of all the great songs he did not write, the one he wished he had was 'All The Things You Are'. Arthur Schwartz went further, calling it 'the greatest song ever written'."
- Gerald Bordman
📷 Bob Landry, 1944
"Richard Rodgers said of all the great songs he did not write, the one he wished he had was 'All The Things You Are'. Arthur Schwartz went further, calling it 'the greatest song ever written'."
- Gerald Bordman
Remembering Lewis Carroll on his birthday 🎂
Self-portrait, June 2, 1857
Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2+7x+53
=11/3
Self-portrait, June 2, 1857
Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2+7x+53
=11/3
January 28, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Remembering Lewis Carroll on his birthday 🎂
Self-portrait, June 2, 1857
Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2+7x+53
=11/3
Self-portrait, June 2, 1857
Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2+7x+53
=11/3
Reposted by Dean Frey
Remembering Donna Reed on her birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Landry, 1946
"The whole point about Alma [in From Here to Eternity] was she was a prostitute who didn't look like one. Try telling that to the studios. All the Oscar brought me was more bland Goody-Two-Shoes parts."
📷 Bob Landry, 1946
"The whole point about Alma [in From Here to Eternity] was she was a prostitute who didn't look like one. Try telling that to the studios. All the Oscar brought me was more bland Goody-Two-Shoes parts."
January 28, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Remembering Donna Reed on her birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Landry, 1946
"The whole point about Alma [in From Here to Eternity] was she was a prostitute who didn't look like one. Try telling that to the studios. All the Oscar brought me was more bland Goody-Two-Shoes parts."
📷 Bob Landry, 1946
"The whole point about Alma [in From Here to Eternity] was she was a prostitute who didn't look like one. Try telling that to the studios. All the Oscar brought me was more bland Goody-Two-Shoes parts."