1958 pic of Eames Alum. Group photo shoot  

Wonderful photo!
I especially admire what Ray did with the rest of the parking lot.
Best,
Aunt Mark

That is fun, thanks.
I like the couple spectating over by the pickup.

Aunt and Uncle
isn't that SDR and Aunt Mark waiting to stash their getaway Studebaker with chairs?

I wonder....
who had the Scientology hook up? Were the Eames Christian scientist?

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All parking lots should be adorned with vases of wild flowers. It softens.
Fondly,
Aunt Mark
ps. why are those people allowed to wear their street shoes on the white mat? And which car belongs to Charles? Are those empty Miller High Life bottles part of Ray's early experimentation with clutter? So many questions this morning....

So cool
to see the immaculateness of the staging area against the rest of the world.
Lots of sexy electricity wires.

she does resemble me, shipwright...
but I believe that is an early photo of L. Ron Hubbard and Old Mother Hubbard "squatting" until the church next door unlocks its front screen door and gathers up a chicken.
sidenote: The well shaped gal with the killer haircut (standing on the mat...looking pissed with her arms folded...) appears as though she should be auditioning for an Alfred Hitchcock movie. How elegant. But does she have soiled shoes?
Aunt Mark

May I?
Christian Science is not the same as Scientology. I don't know anything about Christian Science other than they had reading rooms, but I do know that Scientologists worship Xenu, which is something/someone who lives in outer space and they're not allowed to ever say its name out loud or they be fined $50,000, or something. Also, Tom Cruise.
The people wearing shoes on the paper are the talent. The one pair of old sneakers parked at the edge of the paper belong to a crew person who is not wearing a tie or pearls. Or maybe they are SDR's before he was told to go sit on the curb and behave himself.
Shoe marks on the paper (and those big long seams) would have been laboriously airbrushed out and if you told those touchup artists that one day there would be computers and Photoshop and any rube would be able to do their job in at least an amateur way, you woulda gotten laughed outta town.

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Who is Tom Cruise?
Best,
Aunt Mark

I think he's like
third in command at Scientology Central? L-Ron's favorite nephew? Something like that.

I blame California
Every time I forget the name of "Anthropologie", I call it "Scientology", and my wife laughs at me.
I had a student who was full-on into "L-Ron". She was extremely talented-- but also a pain in the butt, and pretty out there.
There seems to be a strong related connection to the "psychic" community.
And *spanky*, I am fining you $50,000 for saying his name)
You can pay via pay pal

one for Tom C.
pay via pay pal
Xenu will also take cash
there is no exit

and this is the result!?
and this is the the result ! ?
i love this set?.

Shadows.
I'm guessing the large-format shots were taken from a boom.
It would be fun to find any images.