“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but … life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Popeye and Friends (1911), Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine
Kate Moss with children. Photos by Bruce Weber
Drew Barrymore as scout by Mark Seliger
French kids imitate Dizzy Gillespie’s cheeks in Nice (France) by Milt Hinton, 1981
Bob Dylan and kids, Liverpool, England, 1966. Barry Feinstein
Donovan. Photo credit: Chris Walter, circa 1965
Frank Zappa and Mothers of Invention. Art Kane, circa 1968
For this Life magazine session, Art Kane wanted to portray the musical group as a family and took the idea of mothers — and their babies — as a theme. He gathered some of the musicians’ infants, then booked about thirty more from a modeling agency. As soon as they began to shoot, one of the babies urinated, which inspired the others to do so as well, creating in Kane’s words, “the fountains of Rome.”