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Denounce world fascism sign Dorothea Lange photo 1937 San Francisco California Poster
by David Lee Guss
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Denounce world fascism sign Dorothea Lange photo 1937 San Francisco California 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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The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) broke out with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17, triggered by events in Madrid. Within days, Spain was... more
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"The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) broke out with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17, triggered by events in Madrid. Within days, Spain was divided in two: a 'Republican' or "Loyalist' Spain consisting of the Second Spanish Republic (within which were pockets of revolutionary anarchism and Trotskyism), and a 'Nationalist' Spain under the insurgent generals, and, eventually, under the leadership of General Francisco Franco.
By the summer, important tendencies of the war become clear, both in terms of atrocities on both sides and in the contrast between the Soviet Union's intermittent help to the Republican government and the committed support of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany for the Nationalists.
In the early days of the war, over 50,000 people who were caught on the 'wrong' side of the lines were assassinated or summarily executed. In these paseos ('promenades'), as the executions were called, the victims were taken from their refuges or jails by armed people...
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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