Sharon Tate In Twelve Plus One [1969]

Belle de Jour (1967) dir. Luis Buñuel

The Beatles during ‘The Mad Day Out’ photo session (Old Street roundabout, London, 1968). Photo by Stephen Goldblatt.

Catherine Deneuve trying on outfits at Réal boutique, Paris, 1965

SHARON TATE photographed by WILLIAM HELBURN for ‘Esquire’ magazine, 1967.

The first photograph on each slide is an outtake from the photoshoot, alongside the version that was featured in the publication.

DID YOU KNOW?: William Helburn believed that he should get to know his subjects before their photoshoots so that when the day came, they had a comfortable relationship and could thereby achieve better shots. His idea to get to know Sharon was quite extraordinary, and a little risqué, however. In his book, he claims that while he was on his way to meet her at the apartment she was staying in in New York City, he stopped in front of a pharmacy that was selling ‘massagers’. The adverts showed ladies using the devices on various parts of their bodies, but anyone could see what they were really for. He decided that it would be funny to purchase one for Sharon. When he arrived, he handed her the gift to open, and when she did, she shrieked, but comically quipped, “Bill, how did you know I needed a pink one?”

John filming How I Won The War, Autumn 1966. 

She’s not dead, she’s just having an existential crisis.

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964)

Catherine Deneuve photographed by David Bailey for Vogue magazine (1968).

You know, I never told you this. Julie Roussel’s letters were very beautiful. Beautiful because because they were full of hope. We were trying to create something permanent. But you came instead and brought the ephemeral. Before I met you, I thought life was so simple. But now I realize it’s not. You mixed everything up. In a way, it’s too bad.

La sirène du Mississipi, 1969 (dir. François Truffaut)

The Monkees' and their new year resolutions for 1967

Flip Magazine, February 1967 issue