#howard coster

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photograph of Gielgud by Howard Coster

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..."I'm now at an age where I hear a song from the past~~from a good or a bad time~~and I become an emotional wreck. I am back in the time~~good or bad~~and I now have the perspective to understand what really happened, what things really meant. A dog runs to me and offers me affection and I am both overwhelmed and satisfied. A kind word at the market comes my way, and I think of crying. I think I may be grown up now. I think I understand things~~their worth and their meaning. Old age isn't entirely bad."

~ John Gielgud/Interview with James Grissom/1991

[Follies Of God]

[davidhudson]

W. B. Yeats, June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939.

1935 photo by Howard Coster.

[ahandfulwithquietness]

T.E. Lawrence (T.E. Shaw) 13 October 1931 photographed by Howard Coster

In a letter to Charlotte Shaw on 14 October 1931, Lawrence describes how this famous portrait was taken by the well-known portrait photographer Howard Coster: "On Friday I was on the embankment near the Temple ... [when] a little bare-headed man rushed up and said "Colonel Lawrence ... I want to photograph you ... You and Gandhi are the two people I want to take". So I went along, for the joke of it, and he put me on a little chair ... [at] A little shop in Essex Street. Rather a nice little stammering man, I thought. Works for Vogue!" Two weeks later Coster sent Lawrence one of the photographs he had taken (the first one here), and Lawrence commented on it, to his mother on 30 October 1931: "Pity it is so large, for I think that it is very good, as a photograph".

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[cosmicprincezz]

[desimonewayland]

Gluck ca. 1932

Photograph by Howard Coster

Silver print, mounted on paper

Sotheby’s

[seventh-victim]

author, A.A. Milne with his son, Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear   c.1926  (photo: Howard Coster)

[davidhudson]

Alma Reville, August 14, 1899 – July 6, 1982.

With Alfred Hitchcock. 1936 photo by Howard Coster.

[armchairarchivist]

Howard Coster, Gluck