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by David Lee Guss
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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.
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These 19th century Boston partners were masters of the daguerreotype, an early process that was expensive and dangerous, as the mercury fumes were... more
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These 19th century Boston partners were masters of the daguerreotype, an early process that was expensive and dangerous, as the mercury fumes were quite deadly. They are the first of the 20 picture takers honored by the US Postal Service in 2001 in their "Masters of American Photography" series. The stamps featured the most influential photographers in the US since the birth of the art.
Their c. 1850 image of Senator Daniel Webster is a masterpiece of portraiture. The daguerreotype process only yielded one image on a polished copper plate.
The photo seen here is of an Hispanic lady celebrating Mexico's liberation from Spain. It is a typical studio portrait of the time with a painted back drop. Libertad, or freedom, is emblazoned on her theatrical head gear.
It was taken in the Tucson studio of Henry Buehman.
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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