Lena Horne circa 1943-2015 Metal Print
by David Lee Guss
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Lena Horne circa 1943-2015 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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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 :)