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Famous Faces on a Wall

Framed photographs belonging to Sylvia Beach on the wall of Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris, France. It was taken soon after the liberation of Paris in World War II by an American photojournalist. A picture of George Moore by Alvin Langdon Coburn is in the bottom row second from left.

Captioned in Life Magazine: Famous Faces on a Wall. Friends of Sylvia Beach, seen at right talking to an Army-uniformed Hemingway just after liberation of Paris in 1944, hung on wall of her famous bookstore Shakespeare and Co. on the rue de l’Odéon, nesting place of a whole generation of Paris-based artists and writers. From left to right and, in rows, from top to bottom they are Katherine Anne Porter, Composer George Antheil, Katherine Mansfield, Poet William Carlos Williams, Havelock Ellis, Archibald MacLeish (in sketch), bearded D. H. Lawrence, “H.D.” (Poet Hilda Doolittle), Painter-Essayist Wyndham Lewis and below him, lying in mock death pose, Edith Sitwell; Hemingway, (Hemingway with Sylvia Beach in front of her bookstore), Poel James Stephens and James Joyce (both seated), T. S. Eliot and below him Publisher Harriet Weaver, Poet Marianne Moore; Thornton Wilder (in glasses), John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson (dark coat and hat); and Novelist Norman Douglas (standing in garden), Poet Robert McAlmon, Stephen Spender, William Buller Yeats (in pince-nez), Novelist Winifred Ellerman — known as Bryher, Gertrude Stein posing for Sculptor Jo Davidson, Novelists Virginia Woolf and George Moore, George Gershwin.

Published in Life Magazine, 10 April 1964. Owned by the Life Picture Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, USA.