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❤️‍🔥 🎂 Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, aka Lana Del Rey, was born on this day in 1985. She turns 41 today. Happy Birthday LDR...
06/22/2026

❤️‍🔥 🎂 Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, aka Lana Del Rey, was born on this day in 1985. She turns 41 today. Happy Birthday LDR!

Here’s Lana through the years

Lana Del Rey for the cover of Interview Magazine. 📸’s by Nadia Lee Cohen nadia lee cohen. Styled by Mel Ottenberg Interview Magazine (pics 1-3)

Lana Del Rey, in 2015, and an image captured during the Honeymoon Album shoot. 📸 by Caroline “Chuck” Grant Chuck (pic 5)

Lana Del Rey at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery for her Billboard Woman In Music photoshoot in 2023. 📸 by Lia Clay Miller Lia Clay Barnes (pic 7,9,11,12,13)

Lana Del Rey in New Orleans. 📸 by Wyatt Spain Winfrey Wyatt Spain Winfrey (pics 14,16)

Lana Del Rey, September 3rd 2014, NYC. 📸 by ? (Pic 18)

Lana Del Rey, 2017, at Canter’s Deli on N Fairfax Ave. 📸 by Alia Penner Alia Penner (pic 19)

LANA DEL REY

👴 Happy Father’s Day to all the Fathers out there.Here’s Bob Marley and son Stephen shortly after 1972 out in Wilmington...
06/21/2026

👴 Happy Father’s Day to all the Fathers out there.

Here’s Bob Marley and son Stephen shortly after 1972 out in Wilmington, Delaware. 📸 by Godfrey”Ibis” Pitts (?)

Bob Marley Stephen Marley

No Music Monday with Anthony Bourdain, who we lost on this day in 2018. 📸 by the great Chris Floyd Here’s what Chris ha...
06/08/2026

No Music Monday with Anthony Bourdain, who we lost on this day in 2018. 📸 by the great Chris Floyd

Here’s what Chris had to say about his time photographing Anthony:

“I photographed Tony about a year after his book ‘Kitchen Confidential’ was published. These were taken at Les Halles on Park Avenue South. I didn’t know much about him. I had assumed that he was going to be some gobby big mouth with a book to sell. BUT.... within 5 minutes of meeting him I realised that this guy was special. He had a warmth and a wit that was overwhelming, similar to when you meet great musicians, he was in tune with the universe. That’s what Tony was like. He projected an aura of wisdom. Food was the door through which he explored the human condition. The act of sitting down with another human being and breaking bread was a holy sepulchre where homo sapiens could gather common cause and unite. Of course, this whole belief system came to fruition with the TV shows he made - ‘No Reservations’ and ‘Parts Unknown’ - but those shows weren’t born in a vacuum. They were made possible by what he had learned from years of working in kitchens and feeding people. The tyranny of brunch was a phrase I first learned from Tony. After that first time I went to Les Halles quite a lot. I never asked for special favours but every time I went there some part of the meal was comped. The food, the booze, the dessert. The waiter would say, “Oh this is from Tony!” I subsequently photographed him 3 or 4 more times. He always greeted me like an old friend, once calling me before we were due to meet at some joint in Chinatown: “Listen, all the good s**t at this place is gone by 12.30, so meet me out front at 11.45 and don’t be late.” A date with Tony was something to relish. The man had a hell of a soul. I miss that.” - Chris Floyd

The Ramones, June 2, 1976, at the General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument at Grand Army Plaza NYC. 📸 by the great Davi...
06/04/2026

The Ramones, June 2, 1976, at the General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument at Grand Army Plaza NYC. 📸 by the great David Gahr

🕊️🤍Thinking and listening to Jeff Buckley today, who we lost on this day in 1997. He is missed. Here he is on Collister ...
05/29/2026

🕊️🤍Thinking and listening to Jeff Buckley today, who we lost on this day in 1997. He is missed.

Here he is on Collister Street in NYC in 1994. 📸 by Jeff Thurnher

One of my favorite captures and streets in NYC. Apologies for always reposting it. I’m closing in (🤞) on a few new Jeff spots I hopefully be able to share soon.. Stay tuned.

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