Richard Beymer’s Twin Peaks Gallery
Actor Richard Beymer, who played Benjamin Horne in Twin Peaks, has a gallery of hauntingly beautiful black-and-white photos from his time behind the scenes on the David Lynch show. Even if you never watched the whole series (as – full disclosure – I still haven’t had the opportunity to!) – the photos stand alone as an enthralling glimpse at the synergy that evolves around any special production between the cast and the crew. The photos read almost as family portraits, permeated by a sense of camaraderie and playfulness. Lynch himself is always a wonderful photographic subject – this portrait of Lynch and Isabella Rossellini by Helmut Newton is one of my favorite images of all time. In the Beymer photos, Lynch looks genuinely happy to be working on the series with the equipment and people around him. The grainy processing of the film adds another layer of nostalgia over every shot. See all 49 images here. [via Flesh World – nswf]
May 29th, 2009 at 11:53 am
You have acted out on a zeitgeist again. I have been watching the Twin Peak series straight. The entire two season are online here:
http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/
May 29th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
thanks for that link Bianca.. I’ve had a yearning for Twin Peaks lately as well:)
edit: but alas… since I live in Europe this reel won’t play for me:(
May 29th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
These are great, I still have my set of Twink Peaks “baseball” cards. One card is devoted to cherry pie.
http://www.lynchnet.com/tp/tpcards.html
Getting to see anything behind the scenes is fantastic…but B&W AND pics of some of my all time favorite actors…visual feast.
Great post.
@Nadya…tsk tsk tsk…Go see it as soon as you can. You’ll be wandering around for days going “How did that ever get on network TV?” and have quite the hunger for cherry pie and coffee.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Oh, how fitting. I’ve been watching them all online. Had a mini marathon today and am almost through with the series. How lovely!
: )
May 29th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
These photos are so great. This show is classic. I wish we had more than two seasons of it.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Loved the show then and love it now. I’d move to that version of Lynch’s world in a second. Thanks for the link to the gallery.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
my housemate just got the box set for his birthday. We watched the pilot last week and the first two episodes this week. I’ve never seen any of it before, so this is perfect timing!
May 29th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Agent Cooper makes me purr.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Loooooooooooooove them!!!! (Full disclosure: I’ve seen the whole series half a dozen times or so. Nadya, it’s SO much better than Top Model, I SWEAR!!! Do it!)
May 30th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
thank you – those are awesome pictures
and now, since it’s up online, i think we’ll have a twin peaks weekend (we just finished watching all of bab5 again)
May 31st, 2009 at 7:28 am
amazing! just finished the series this past spring. it’s incredible, and these photos are a gem! yay.
May 31st, 2009 at 6:07 pm
It holds up well, even the fashions.
June 5th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Ever hear about the Season 3 graphic novel? Sadly, never to be– but, in an interview here: http://twinpeaksarchive.blogspot.com/2007/07/exclusive-matt-haley-interview.html
there are some very interesting tidbits of what might have happened had Twin Peaks gone to S3.
March 31st, 2011 at 9:37 am
[…] through the snow and being tucked up with Whittard’s Mulled Wine Flavour Tea swooning over these photographs shot by Richard Beymer (also known as Benjamin Horne) on the set of Twin Peaks. If there was one place I could have been a fly on the […]