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by David Lee Guss
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Purchase a tote bag featuring the photograph "Film noir Peter Lorre Fritz Lang M 1931 ghost town Magdalena New Mexico 1971-2008" 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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The Hungarian born Peter Lorre (1904-1964) gives a career defining performance, as the child murderer, in this proto-film noir directed by Fritz... more
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The Hungarian born Peter Lorre (1904-1964) gives a career defining performance, as the child murderer, in this proto-film noir directed by Fritz Lang.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIj3Bk0bhL8&feature=search
Guns and death are a large part of film noir, a term coined by French critics when they had an opportunity to finally watch a flood of American films denied them by their Nazi occupiers in WW2.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcORWT-gXs&NR=1
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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Love the strong contrasts between the light and shadows!! :)))fv
David Lee Guss replied:
Hi, Thanks. i am also partial to this image. DLG