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by David Lee Guss
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This c.1905 panoramic image of the Stone Avenue/W. Congress Street intersection in downtown Tucson, Arizona, was taken some four years before film... more
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This c.1905 panoramic image of the Stone Avenue/W. Congress Street intersection in downtown Tucson, Arizona, was taken some four years before film pioneer Allan Dwan (1885-1981) began his movie career in Tucson, as "a sort of unit manager."
In Peter Bogdanovich's riveting 1997 "Who the Devil Made It," Dwan recounts that, in the summer of 1909, Congress was "very 'Old West,' with lots of saloons and cowboys and things."
Two years before Marion Michael Morrison (later called John Wayne) was born at home delivered by a female family friend doctor on May 26, 1907 in Winterset, Iowa, a town of muddy, unpaved streets navigated by horses and buggies.
In December of 1903 Thomas Alva Edison released Edwin S. Porter's most celebrated film, the Western "The Great Train Robbery."
"Robbery," also photographed and directed by Porter without credit, is one of the first narrative, or story films, of significant length employing "cross-cutting, double exposure co...
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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