He now enjoys posting classic pictures for Throwback Thursday.
But the image is also clearly descended from a long line of classic pictures of painters painting.
He dislikes John Wayne, loves Gary Cooper, prefers the Jimmy Stewart of Capra's classic pictures to the Stewart of Anthony Mann's westerns and is fascinated by Clint Eastwood.
The range of images in her show spans from classic pictures by August Sander to contemporary color pigment prints by Susan Paulsen, an artist whose work Deborah has been following for many years.
In the course of a half century, Barton Silverman has gone from being a scrappy Brooklyn kid making his own breaks — and almost falling off a bridge — to taking classic pictures of athletes like Joe Namath and Derek Jeter.
Yet over the last year there have been new efforts to put classic pictures online, both to find them new audiences and to use those audiences to breathe new meaning into the photographs.
And there are plenty of goofs among the classic pictures here, from outtakes from Philippe Halsman's 1948 session with an airborne Salvador Dalí and various flying props ("Water splashes Dalí instead of cat," a handwritten caption reads) to Robert Capa's images of the Normandy invasion, which survived the battle only to be ruined by a lab assistant in London.
Although Newman formally retired from acting in 2007, his income still largely stems from residuals from his classic pictures, as well as more recent productions, such as the 2005 TV series Empire Falls.
But Hills Bros. is betting that a new package design, which combines classic pictures of the founders of Chase & Sanborn with bold modern graphics, will catch shoppers' eyes.
On a clear day, this is a great place to snap your own classic pictures of the iconic Golden Gate with the city of San Francisco in the background.
Rather, the artist is in control of every aspect of the image, an orchestrated fabrication just like the classic pictures of Hollywood.
