#Albert Maysles

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Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)

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Grey Gardens, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer (1975)

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Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles/David Maysles/Muffie Meyer/Ellen Hovde | 1975)

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Awhile ago on Twitter I saw a peterick manip that I had a lot of fun pulling apart, and part of the fun is that I found out there was some pretty interesting history behind it. In the spirit of trying to use this blog more and being able to write a whole lot more over here I wanted to go into the whole thing in more detail.

Behold! If you're familiar with the Olde Internet and making horribly filtered graphics- things of this nature are very easy to identify. But since I see a lot of people both younger and older than me not spotting it, here's some tips. Different quality of images, different or nonsense light sources, etc. If it seems to good to be true, honey, it probably is- or whatever! But where did these images come from?

This photo is a composite of Patrick Stump (with Albert Maysles) at the CosmoGIRL! Born to Lead Awards on Nov 13, 2007 and Pete Wentz (with Ashlee Simpson) at Clive Davis' Pre-Grammy Party on Feb 9, 2008. Here are both the original images and it overlaid at 40% opacity. I'm not still entirely convinced I found a photo of the right angle of the Pete and Ashlee kiss, but it has to be the same event.

Pete was the easiest to date his look and find. The hair length, the "adventurous" hat, the blazer- it all feels pretty typical of that era and his many photo ops with his now ex-wife. I was able to immediately find it by looking for images of Pete and Ashlee at events from 2008, but I wouldn't have needed that much precision to find it...

(See them peeking out from the bottom of this screenshot of the Google results for "Ashlee Simpson Pete Wentz Kiss")

Finding Patrick Stump however took atleast an hour because I had so much confidence his look was from early 2008. Jokes on me! On top of the event being pretty unknown it was actually from late 2007 and now I've seen so many photos of Patrick from those two years I can date specific haircuts down to the week. I'm deeply unhappy about this development.

Now someone might be asking: why the fuck was Albert Maysles hanging out with Fall Out Boy?

If you aren't familiar with the late Albert Maysles he was an American documentary filmmaker best known for the films he made with his brother David. Famously the Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter (1970) and often referenced and parodied documentary Grey Gardens (1975) which is more than I'm able to explain right now .

It was reported by Rolling Stones, MTV News and Indiewire (which I've pulled the below quotes from) that Albert Maysles had expressed interest and was in the process of making a documentary of Fall Out Boy and potentially Decaydance as a record label? Whatever happened to this project, I don't know! I occasionally look for information about it and find a lot of dead links/ends.

However, it is pretty interesting! And a neat piece of history I wouldn't have learned about if I wasn't trying to figure out how a peterick manip was made.

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Interview Magazine, April 1976.

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Albert Maysles, November 26, 1926 - March 5, 2015.

Aiming the camera while David Maysles looks on.

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Grey Gardens (1975) Film Review A+

Special mention to the TV movie “Grey Gardens” (2009) Special mention to the TV Limited Series” Feud: Capote vs The Swans” (2024) Big and Little Edie Bouvier have entered the hearts of gay men everywhere! Well, maybe not everywhere! The film “Grey Gardens” tells the story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier, the aunt and cousin of former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. When the…

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Salesman (1969)

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Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)

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Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles/David Maysles/Muffie Meyer/Ellen Hovde | 1975)

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas | 1972)

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The Maysles Brothers, Albert and David, were the cinema verite filmmakers responsible for Salesman, Primary, Grey Gardens, and many other important documentaries. 

At one point they were going to be responsible for a cooking show(!) starring the famous chef James Beard.

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Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance.

– Albert Maysles

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