Betty Davis was an American composer and singer working in the funk and soul idioms.
She is known for such songs as “Anti Love Song “.
Tag Archives: RIP
RIP John Wesley (1928 – 2022)
John Wesley was an American painter, known for his spareness of technique and flat-style of painting.
RIP Ian McDonald (1946 – 2022)
Ian McDonald was an English composer and musician, best-known as a founding member of King Crimson with whom he co-composed “21st Century Schizoid Man” (1969).
RIP Jacques Calonne (1930 – 2022)
Jacques Calonne was a Belgian artist, actor and musician.
RIP Douglas Trumbull (1942 – 2022)
Douglas Trumbull was an American film director known for directing films such as Silent Running (1972) and Brainstorm (1983).
He also did special effects on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life.
Syl Johnson (1936 – 2022)
Syl Johnson was an American singer known for compositions such as “Is It Because I’m Black” (1969), a musical composition performed and co-written by Johnson.
RIP George Crumb (1929 – 2022)
George Crumb was an American composer known for such compositions as Black Angels (1971). Black Angels is featured in “Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie” (2003), a list of records by David Bowie published in Vanity Fair.
RIP Margarita Lozano (1931 – 2022)
Margarita Lozano was a Spanish actress known for her parts in Viridiana (1961, Luis Buñuel) and A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sergio Leone).
RIP Monica Vitti (1931 – 2022)
Monica Vitti was an Italian actress best known for starring in L’Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961) and L’Eclisse (1962).
These films were directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
RIP Kohei Yoshiyuki (1946 – 2022)
Kohei Yoshiyuki was a Japanese photographer known for his book The Park (1979, 2007) which shows people cruising for sex in Tokyo parks in the 1970s.
The book was hailed by Martin Parr as “a brilliant piece of social documentation, catching perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.”
Of all the deads I posted about since the death of Elza Soares, this one is the most interesting one. Erotomania is still my main affliction. Long live public sex and its voyeurs.