Johnny Cash close-up The Man Comes Around music homage Old Tucson AZ Acrylic Print
by David Lee Guss
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Johnny Cash close-up The Man Comes Around music homage Old Tucson AZ acrylic print by David Lee Guss. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
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The apocalyptic song The Man Comes Around was one of last songs Johnny Cash wrote. He credited his wife June Carter and his religious faith as... more
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The apocalyptic song "The Man Comes Around" was one of last songs Johnny Cash wrote. He credited his wife June Carter and his religious faith as helping him to overcome his drug addiction and alcoholism. This song refers to the Second Coming of Christ as mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. The Man Comes Around is the title track on his fourth album in his American series, released in 2002. The next track "Hurt," with the subsequent video, is almost too painful to watch. An obviously dying Johnny is contrasted with footage of him in his prime.
The same technique was used at the beginning of John Wayne's final film "The Shootist," as an opening credit montage has scenes, as a gunslinger, lifted from his better known Westerns.
In the same year as this was taken (1971) writer Dorothy Gallagher, in a Redbook magazine article, shrewdly observed that Johnny's face is "interchangeable" with the poor Southern whites photographed by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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