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by David Lee Guss
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Purchase a tote bag featuring the photograph "Film Homage Melbourne Spurr Buster Keaton C.1921 Color Added 2012 #4" by David Lee Guss. Our tote bags are made from soft, durable, poly-poplin fabric and include a 1" black strap for easy carrying on your shoulder. All seams are double-stitched for added durability. Each tote bag is machine-washable in cold water and is printed on both sides using the same image.
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Melbourne Spurr (1888-1964) was one of the premiere Hollywood photographers in the 1920's. John Barrymore, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Tom Mix... more
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Melbourne Spurr (1888-1964) was one of the premiere Hollywood photographers in the 1920's. John Barrymore, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Tom Mix and Buster Keaton were among his favored clients.
He was particularly close to Pickford who adored being photographed. Not so with her husband Douglas Fairbanks.
Spurr's classic image of John Barrymore is among my favorites and was used on the cover of Gene Fowler's biography of "The Great Profile," "Goodnight Sweet Prince."
Spurr was an uncredited publicity photographer on Keaton's "The General" (1926) and "The Cameraman" (1928).
And like Buster his career fell away in the 1930's as the major film companies had their own "in house" portrait photographers. Spurr maintained his studio well into the 1950's.
His deafness prevented him from being an actor in the industry.
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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