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Ted Degrazia On Quest For The Lost Dutchman's Mine Superstition Mountains 1962-2013 #1 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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Ted Degrazia On Quest For The Lost Dutchman's Mine Superstition Mountains 1962-2013 #1 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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53 year old Ted DeGrazia, and his traveling companion 63 year old Tohono O'odham Native American Juan Xavier, look like refugees from a vintage 1910... more
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53 year old Ted DeGrazia, and his traveling companion 63 year old Tohono O'odham Native American Juan Xavier, look like refugees from a vintage 1910 Mexican revolution photo.
Or better yet, as on location actors in the Sierra Madre Mountains from John Huston's 1948 released "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
As with Humphrey Bogart, DeGrazia was on a quest for gold. Like Bogie's guide Walter Huston, DeGrazia was accompanied by men "who could smell gold." For Ted was on a mission to discover the mythological "Lost Dutchman's Mine."
Rumored to have an historical map pinpointing the mine, DeGrazia and company still failed. By 1962 Ted was probably a millionaire anyway.
But he received priceless free publicity and had an opportunity to hang out in the wilderness with his Indian and Mexican friends.
One Apache compadre Marko Romero claimed to have ridden with Pancho Villa 50 years before.
Ted DeGrazia returned to the Superstition'...
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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