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by David Lee Guss
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Our Bella / Canvas t-shirts are made from a 50% cotton / 50% polyester blend and are available in five different sizes. All t-shirts are machine washable.
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Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; 3 June 1906 - 12 April 1975) was a French dancer, jazz and pop music singer, and actress, who came to... more
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"Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; 3 June 1906 - 12 April 1975) was a French dancer, jazz and pop music singer, and actress, who came to be known in various circles as the 'Black Pear,'Bronze Venus' 'Jazz Queen,' and even the 'Creole Goddess.' Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she renounced her U.S. citizenship to become a citizen of France in 1937. She was fluent in both English and French.
She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934), and to become a world-famous entertainer. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and is noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. In 1968 she was offered unofficial leadership in the movement in the United States by Coretta Scott King, following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Baker declined the offer.
She was also known for assisting the French Resistance during World War II,and received the French military honor, the Croix de guerre a...
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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Thanks! Theater photography is my favorite photography. DLG