Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones (August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963), was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as “the most popular black female recording artist of the ’50s”, and called “The Queen of the Blues”.
Dinah Washington.
her voice is so incredible
“…the Czech avant-garde, such as Jan Lukas, Jan Lauschmann, Jaromir Funke, and Vera Gabrielova, imbued their images with abstraction and modernity that would come to define the photography of their generation, hopscotching across the movements of early-twentieth-century art (Constructivism, Surrealism, Cubism, Futurism), experimenting with photograms and collages, and reinventing the still life and the portrait.”
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“Southam Street, North Kensington, London” (1957)
Roger Mayne
The Marvelettes
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Marianne Faithfull in the Joshua Tree Natioinal Park, 1968. Photo by Michael Cooper.
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Kaleidoscope bodysuit
Cape
Emilio Pucci, 1964
The Kyoto Costume Institute
Tina Britt, on the back of her LP, Blue all the Way. The LP doesn’t stand up to her single, “the real thing,” but isn’t that how it always goes?
Dee Dee Warwick
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Dee Dee Warwick