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Ted DeGrazia front gate #1 Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona no date-2013 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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Ted DeGrazia front gate #1 Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona no date-2013 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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The front door of Ted DeGrazia's Gallery in the Sun is a virtual replica of the one at the infamous Yuma Prison.... more
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The front door of Ted DeGrazia's "Gallery in the Sun" is a virtual replica of the one at the infamous Yuma Prison.
Ted's biographer/muse and artistic collaborator Carol Locust writes that she met an aged White Mountain Apache Silas John Edwards at the San Carlos hospital in Phoenix, a roommate of her son Kee.
She casually mentioned this to Ted who had "an immediate interest in the name."
Ted sadly said : "I met Silas when he was in Yuma Prison. He is a very old warrior. He told me that he was just a child when Geronimo taught him traditional Apache spiritual ways. Silas said he started practicing the spiritual ways right after Geronimo and his band were banished to Florida. Silas made his way back to White River, to Fort Apache. When he grew up the Bluecoats were afraid he would start an uprising using Geronimo's teachings. They put him in Yuma prison and said he could never go back home."
When Silas was transferred to a nursing home in Mesa, Ted an...
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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