#ben martin

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Eartha Kitt (and one of her cats) at home in Beverly Hills, photos by Ben Martin, January 1957.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

West Side Story opened at the Winter Garden Theater on September 26, 1957. Above, the girls in the chorus celebrate after the show in their dressing room.

Photo: Ben Martin via Getty Images/NBC News

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Pop art sculptor Marisol Escobar (1930 – 2016), known as Marisol, in her studio, 1963. (Photo by Ben Martin)

[davidhudson]

Marisol, May 22, 1930 – April 30, 2016.

1963 photo by Ben Martin.

[1960somethings]

Photograph of Roddy, from 1965, by Ben Martin

[blondebrainpowered]

Masters and Johnson study sexuality

William Masters and Virginia Johnson were just over a decade into their work researching the nature of human sexuality in the spring of 1970. Here, the pioneering duo is photographed at their Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis, now called the Masters and Johnson Institute.

Photographer: Ben Martin

[transistoradio]

Marisol Escobar (1930-2016) photographed by 1) Walter Sanders in 1957, 2) Ben Martin in 1963, 3) Sam Falk in 1964, and 4) Jack Mitchell in 1969.

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Marisol Escobar (Pop Art Sculptor ) Studio Photo by Ben Martin, 1963