Fly me to the moon...
LIFE photographer John Dominis spent weeks with Sinatra in 1965 — the year the singer turned 50 — emerging with one of the most revealing photographic records of any major performer’s private world ever captured on film. From rehearsals in smoke-filled recording studios to Vegas nightclub performances to golf in the Nevada sun to playing with his dog Ringo in his home office to late-night hijinks with his drinking buddies, the Sinatra in Dominis’s remarkable photos is at-once far more approachable than the near-mythic bad boy of legend, and more Olympian in the way he dominates every scene. In large gatherings and small, in hotel suites and in sports arenas, virtually every frame Dominis shot makes it clear that, when Sinatra was around, no one else mattered.
Photo via LIFE Magazine
Frank Sinatra, shaving, 1965
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Photography, when done well, can tell a story in a way words can't. Not easy to do
ReplyDeleteI find this picture strangely .....HEROIC. This very human man, giving himself... to give us, his fans, what we want.... The mythic bad boy. The dude who stole fire from the gods.
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