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6.00" x 8.00"
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8.00" x 10.00"
Lena Horne circa 1943-2015 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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Lena Horne circa 1943-2015 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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You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.... more
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"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.""
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."
"A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it."
"In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way."
[on love] "Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can."
"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman, I'm not alone, I'm free. I say I'm free because I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else."
[on Myrna Loy] "A great star and a woman of accomplishment who is angry about all the right things."
"I had this sort of greedy age...
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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Jacek Dudzinski
Amazing work. I love it! You inspire me. Have to put more thoughts into my artwork :)