Peking Duck, Beijing © Doug Kim, Nikon F5, 35-70mm Nikkor, Agfa APX 400
Chess, Hanoi, Vietnam; Nikon N90, 28-70mm Nikkor, Agfa APX 400, printed on Agfa 111
Happy & Bret, Hollywood © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Stüssy, SoHo © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Fulton Street, Brooklyn © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Venice Beach, Los Angeles © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Wayne and I were poster boys for the Odd Couple. Politically and socially, he was 140 degrees to the right of Genghis Khan. I was oppositely inclined. He’d call me a bomb-throwing Bolshevik. It was a love-hate thing. We’d get in big arguments, especially with a little booze in us.
- Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
I was in the USSR on my first visit in 1959 doing general coverage for my agency. While there I went to the main post office in Moscow and found the most graphic stamps with the largest images of Stalin and Lenin that I could find. I put them on postcards and addressed them to Wayne at his Newport Beach home. About a year later in a meeting he said to me, “I did get those postcards from Russia, you son of a bitch!” That was his catchphrase, he used it all the time. Like the time I pointed out his son Jonathan Ethan Wayne’s monogrammed initials on his luggage (“You son of a bitch!”).
- Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
We were once in Durango, Mexico – the middle of nowhere (I digress – but he shot there a lot because of the lack of telephone and telegraph poles, as his pictures were set in the 1800s. Mexico gave him the wide vistas he needed.) He had a turbo jet airplane that he used like most people used like station wagons to transport his family to locations. They’d never come out to the actual location – it was too remote. It was Pilar and Ethan (I think it was the trip with the luggage, actually.) Anyway, Wayne was getting made up and Ethan said to him, “Daddy, why do you make these movies in the ‘middle of nowhere’ as Mommy says?” and Wayne said, “To keep Mommy supplied in tennis balls!”
- Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
He was a mixed bag, like all of us. He had his tender, warm, loving moments, but he was also an S.O.B.
- Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
He was very tenacious about protecting his identity as a western, macho he-man. He would not allow anyone to make fun of that except himself.
- Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne & Gary Cooper © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
John Wayne © Phil Stern
Dave Leamon, House of Pies, Los Angeles © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Dave Leamon, House of Pies, Los Angeles © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
Images from the first shoot I’ve had with a medium format camera in a few years with the beautiful Polina at my place. A couple of good ones and a joy again to work in this format. I also shot with the Leica MP and a Nikon F5. My comfort zone is definitely the 35mm rangefinder.
With a bigger, heavier camera, I am just slower and my choices are much different. Practice, practice, practice.
Will be posting more from the shoot soon.
Polina, Brooklyn © Doug Kim, Hasselblad 500CM, 80mm C T* Planar, Kodak Tri-X
Polina, Brooklyn © Doug Kim, Hasselblad 500CM, 80mm C T* Planar, Kodak Tri-X
Little Armenia, Los Angeles © Doug Kim, Leica MP 0.58, 35mm Summicron, Kodak Tri-X
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