I am a sentient YouTube channel (TALES FROM WEIRDLAND) running a blog. Aesthetics, art, Bardot, weirdness.
The all-new Brigitte Bardot gallery.
(I’ve fired up my BB Instagram account again. Many of the rare and unique photos that I upload online find their way to other BB accounts anyway, often with wrong information or in lesser quality, so I figured I might just as well post them on my own dedicated account—properly. And also, people were very appreciative of my account, which has many photos nobody has seen before, and I kind of missed the fun of doing it. It’s good therapy.)
EDIT: I forgot to change back the privacy settings of my account. So if you weren’t able to follow me—it’s fixed now. Sorry about that.
By the way, I came across this still of Stan Lee without his moustache and glasses and hairpiece and found myself staring at it for about a minute or two.
Could you talk a little about BB and Serge Gainsborough? I know they recorded Bonnie and Clyde together and that they were involved, but I never see pictures of them together. They were both so famous so I don't know how their relationship wasn't on the public radar!
Will do. I’ll do a post on their relationship; the story is interesting for several reasons. I don’t have much time this month—hence the lack of posts—but I’ll get to it soon.
First up, BB in Rome in 1967. Photo by Jean-Claude Sauer.
BB photographed by Edward Quinn on the set of Et Dieu… créa la femme (AND GOD CREATED WOMAN) in 1956. The film was shot on location in Saint-Tropez and at the Studios de la Victorine in Nice, which is where this photo was taken.
A previously unpublished photo of BB’s session with Mark Shaw in 1956 (I’ve featured that session HERE).
BB advertizing the Graziella in 1966, a compact and foldable Italian bicycle launched two years before. Like the previous image, this one is a little hazy, but it hasn’t been published before.
Brigitte Bardot photographed by Bill Ray during the making of SHALAKO (1968) in Spain. I often wonder what drove her to do westerns like SHALAKO and FRENCHIE KING. Not that SHALAKO is a bad movie per se, but it’s so run-of-the-mill, so uninteresting. BB kind of squandered her potential from the mid-60s on I feel—or not squandered, but rather watched it drift, bored with cinema as she had become.
Photographed by Terry O’Neill in 1968.
A scene from Et Dieu… créa la femme (1956), BB’s breakthrough film.
A young Brigitte Bardot sculpting a sand profile at the Venice Film Festival in 1953.
Working on her make-up on the set of Une Parisienne (1957). In nearly every film she wore her own clothes and did her own make-up.
At Coco Beach in Nice in 1955. (The seafood restaurant was destroyed by a fire in 2017.)
And BB photographed by Jerome Brierre in Búzios, Brazil, in 1964.
As you might know, I ran a BB Instagram account for a few months. But I closed it down as an act of protest when a photo of a topless BB was censored, when elsewhere on Instagram acts of cruelty of violence are allowed. I can’t stay there in good conscience anymore. Other factors played a role in my decision to quit, but that, the hypocritical Victorian censorship, was the big one. And anyway I don’t like branching out I’ve discovered. I consider Tumblr my Internet home of sorts, and it’s fine like that, I don’t really feel the need to be everywhere with my crap.
The Muppets: what we see, and what goes on behind the scenes. A hazy image unfortunately, from a magazine. Then again there’s some much HD 4K ultra crystal clear crap around, sometimes I just love the grainy vintage-ness of an image like this. Love the view of the set too.
