Most unusual photos of Frank Lloyd Wright ?

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Fri May 08, 2009 8:22 pm

An upstart friend of mine forwarded this link.

http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/frid ... 116036.asp

I know we can do better that that. Anybody ? There are some surprising photos of the Old Man ("Our Hero") out there; I have some that look quite
unlike any other of his hundreds (thousands ?) of "head shots."

How many photos can we find, for instance, of him smoking or holding a cigarette ?

SDR

Jeff Myers · Post by **Jeff Myers** » Fri May 08, 2009 8:58 pm

http://www.life.com/search/?type=images ... d%20Wright
I thought that this was a good site. If you go throgh them there are some good ones after about page 2 or so.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Fri May 08, 2009 9:21 pm

Thanks -- that yielded this odd photo. To me it almost looks like a different face than Wright's, at first glance.

as George Shultz

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Fri May 08, 2009 9:23 pm

A black and white, full frontal of a beaming Wright, a cigarette held aloft in his left hand, appeared (here ?) in the last day or two. Anybody ?

SDR

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Fri May 08, 2009 9:44 pm

These two photos appear in John Lloyd Wright's "My Father Who Is On Earth."

as Harold Bennett

as Bela Lugosi

m.perrino · Post by **m.perrino** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:25 am

Jeff : thanks for the link - many photos I had never seen before, esp. several of the david wright house. My all time favorite, if not unusual, is a photo of FLW at Taliesin - probably Hillside, slightly bent over working on a drawing, somewhat in profile. On the bench next to him, is I believe, Brandoch Peters, Wes's son, probably at age 9 or 10. To me, a sentimental favorite.....

Michael

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Sat May 09, 2009 9:53 am

This is the most unusual photo of Wright that I have ever seen. He looks like a successful businessman, not an "artiste."

FLW c. 1920

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat May 09, 2009 10:08 am

Thanks, Paul -- that is definitely one of the strange ones I was hoping to find again.

Try as I might I cannot find the one mentioned by m.perrino above.

I suppose that some will assert that these are just the expected variations that the human face will exhibit, over time, in different lights, with the
changes that hair, dress, mood, etc, will wreak upon the subject. But one wonders if the expression "many masks" doesn't apply, after all. . .

Here are more, most of them found in E Tafel's "About Wright"; none of these is more unusual than the one Paul gives, just above.

as George Washington

as Golda Meir -- or Gertrude Stein

as Red Skelton

as Edgar Kennedy

as W C Fields

peeing behind a bush ??

Said to be the last photo of FLLW. . .

Jeff Myers · Post by **Jeff Myers** » Sat May 09, 2009 11:43 am

SDR:
Where did you find the Photo that is said to be the Last Photo of Mr. Wright.
m.perrino:
Your welcome.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat May 09, 2009 11:54 am

On p 317 of "About Wright," by Edgar Tafel, F.A.I.A, Â©1993, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore.

SDR

Jeff Myers · Post by **Jeff Myers** » Sat May 09, 2009 11:58 am

When was the Photo taken?
I know 1959 is the date.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat May 09, 2009 12:24 pm

I don't know.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat May 09, 2009 12:36 pm

Here are three more. Patrick Meehan's "Truth Against the World"
(Wiley, New York, 1987) turns out to be a trove of these portraits;
it includes these, and Paul's "oddest-of-them-all" photo above.

as Harpo Marx

as Little Lord Fauntleroy

Reidy · Post by **Reidy** » Sat May 09, 2009 4:00 pm

A fairly well-published photo by Karsh of Ottawa, ca. 1950, shows him smoking. One of the biographies (Secrest or Gill) shows him in front of a fireplace with a cigarette.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat May 09, 2009 11:51 pm

as Bette Davis

as Darth Vader

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Most unusual photos of Frank Lloyd Wright ?

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