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by David Lee Guss
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Our throw pillows are made from 100% spun polyester poplin fabric and add a stylish statement to any room. Pillows are available in sizes from 14" x 14" up to 26" x 26". Each pillow is printed on both sides (same image) and includes a concealed zipper and removable insert (if selected) for easy cleaning.
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This recreated scene is of a newsreel cameraman filming the hoopla on July 4th, 1910, in Reno, Nevada. The event was a heavyweight boxing match... more
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This recreated scene is of a newsreel cameraman filming the hoopla on July 4th, 1910, in Reno, Nevada. The event was a heavyweight boxing match between champ Jack Johnson and former champ Jim Jeffries.
Newsreels were begun in France in 1906, but started in the US shortly before this event.
"The Great White Hope" is a fictionalized account of Johnson's tribulations in a racist society. He was the first black heavyweight champion. So a "White Hope" was needed to dethrone him.
The main street of Globe, Arizona was made over to simulate Reno in 1910.
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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