Leni Riefenstahl closeup circa 1936 color added 2015 Metal Print
by David Lee Guss
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Leni Riefenstahl closeup circa 1936 color added 2015 metal print by David Lee Guss. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
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Riefenstahl produced and directed her own work called Das Blaue Licht ('The Blue Light') in 1932, co-written by Carl Mayer and Bala Balazs. This film... more
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"Riefenstahl produced and directed her own work called Das Blaue Licht ('The Blue Light') in 1932, co-written by Carl Mayer and Bala Balazs. This film won the Silver Medal at the Venice Film Festival, but was not universally well-received, for which Riefenstahl blamed the critics, many of whom were Jewish.'Upon its 1938 re-release, the names of Balazs and Sokal, both Jewish, were removed from the credits; some reports claim this was at Riefenstahl's behest.'In the film, Riefenstahl played an innocent peasant girl who is hated by the villagers because they think she is diabolic and cast out.' She is protected by a glowing mountain grotto. According to herself, Riefenstahl received invitations to travel to Hollywood to create films, but she refused them in favour of remaining in Germany with a boyfriend. The film attracted the attention of Hitler, who believed she epitomized the perfect German female. He saw talent in Riefenstahl and arranged a meeting.
In 1933, Riefenstahl appe...
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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