I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.
- The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
“You do care a little for me, I know… but nothing to speak of, and you don’t love me. I was yours once till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now… and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice
James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, 1983.
Photographed by Lord Snowdon. They were partners in life and in filmmaking for over forty years.‘I feel sometimes that we are the same person’ – James Ivory
Maurice (James Ivory) at 26, 1987 – 2013 [x]
*****
Favourite Maurice things, 5/26:
Maurice Hall/Alec Scudder
Original set photography by Jon Gardey [spelling corrected!] from Robert Emmet Long (1991) The Films of Merchant Ivory, 1st Edition.
Brand new scan, clean-up and slight colour manip work by me.
This is my cover to my dvd
westvillagecontructionnyc Yup, it was used later, in 2004, as the front-cover image for the (out-of-print) Merchant Ivory Collection DVD of Maurice (= ‘your DVD’). But check the differences: the DVD artwork reverses and crops Jon Gardey’s original photo, and gives it a misty, nostalgic faded-out look.
My scan is directly from the book stated above plus some colour work: in contrast with both the original photo and the DVD artwork, I’ve tuned up the green to make it really bright.
Most of Maurice’s beautiful colour stills photography was the work of Jon Gardey or Katya Grenfell, but they rarely get credited in most of the reproductions (including the DVD cover), I assume because their work is treated as ‘belonging’ to Merchant Ivory Productions…
