Ted DeGrazia singer Sammi Smith Dick Frontain photo Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona c.1977-2013 Acrylic Print
by David Lee Guss
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Ted DeGrazia singer Sammi Smith Dick Frontain photo Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona c.1977-2013 acrylic print by David Lee Guss. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
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Ted DeGrazia and singer Sammi Smith (1943-2005) were photographed by Dick Frontain in front of the gallery in c.1977.... more
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Ted DeGrazia and singer Sammi Smith (1943-2005) were photographed by Dick Frontain in front of the gallery in c.1977.
The photographer was said to have "had more pictures of Ted than any other person in the world."
A year earlier he had snapped a picture off a TV monitor of Ted being interviewed by Gene Shalit on the "Today Show." Shalit
had an outrageous hairdo and bushy mustache. He rudely remarked that Ted looked "funny" in his typical Western wear.
Smith sang in a DeGrazia directed video of "an Old West tale of lust for gold." Ted called it a "spaghetti Western," starring himself with Smith in a saloon singing the tune she penned for him, called "DeGrazia's Song."
Carol Locust goes on to say that Ted "had the starring role in several videos made by his Gallery."
The American country music singer/songwriter was signed to Columbia Records with the help of Johnny Cash.
Like Ted she was a heavy smoker but their is no confirma...
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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