picturesque the way a landscape is, a very American one perhaps

Thank you, Jansy, for letting us know about this exhibit. I may visit it, I'd like to. Viewing it online I felt that Bert Stern was a great photographer and there are some I'd especially like to see in person.  It's easy to be fooled by viewing online, but so often I only realize that when I see a photo in person.  I'm particularly interested in the ones of MM and Sue Lyon.  I was thinking that the VN photo has great lighting and is shot from below, and his face looks like a giant mountain.  I don't particularly see eyeliner -- wonder if anyone else does -- and I didn't notice the hair down his neck, what an odd observation! Now that you point it out, it reminds me of something I saw growing up an ancient tree trunk in the Museum of Natural History museum recently and photographed (link below, and photo pasted in below). Concerning " a hint of bristling hair running down his back…  I love it." tell more! Interesting that you mention Fellini, as I've been re-watching "8-1/2" recently (streaming from The Criterion Collection via HuluPlus).  That thought didn't occur to me but now I won't be able to forget it as I gaze at that b&w film masterpiece, or won't be able to stop comparing bw film methods and results.  I see what you mean in that the b&w photography is done so well, so strikingly.  For the VN photo, perhaps the view from below gives us an exaggerated idea of distance between left eye and brow.  It's a pre-Photoshop photo to perfection.  Dark, light, detail.  Light in the eyes.  Perhaps Bert Stern succeeded in getting VN to cede control, revealing more than he himself may have designed or usually permitted in print, in public, but probably also pleasing him. Does anyone know, did VN like this photo?

Barrie

Jansy, do you see the hair going up the neck of this tree in the MNH park (April 30, 2015) like the hair you spotted on VN's neck in photo by Bert Stern: