Hopperesque
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
It Didn't Shine
There were windows in the kitchenette apartments, but all from the top to the bottom floor had folding iron grilles which were closed and locked at that time of night and dark shades were drawn on all but three. The apartment house had a vertical row of small black openings one above the other at the rear. They might have been bathroom windows but no light showed in any of them and the glass was so dirty in didn't shine.
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And then i thought of some of our loudmouthed leaders urging our vulnerable soul brothers on to getting themselves killed, and thought further that all unorganized violence is like a blind man with a pistol.
excerpts from
Chester Himes
Blind Man with a Pistol
1969
Bernice Abbott
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359265.Blind_Man_with_a_Pistol
Monday, 9 December 2019
Hangmen Also Die
The Resistance Banker
Operation Finale
The Conformist
Riphagen
Charlotte Gray
Hangmen Also Die
Operation Anthropoid
Man with the Iron Heart
In the Shadow (Ve Stinu)
Flame and Citron
The Stranger
Armee Des Ombres
The Good German
Babylon Berlin
Big Lonely City #73
Emile Savitry
Andre Kertesz
unknown
Robert Frank
John Vachon
Willy Rizzo
Bert Hardy
unknown
unknown
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Kosz
unknown
Jerry Carraher
unknown
unknown
Esther Bubley
Saul Leiter
Sunday, 8 December 2019
The Harsh Demands
We have lost our innocence, our individualism, and our strict small-town morals to mechanization and industry, to the harsh demands of capital, to overcrowded yet lonely cities, to unrestrained lust, to a mobility that makes us strangers and transients.
Gordon Theisen
Staying Up Much Too Late -
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark
Side of the American Psyche
2006
https://indyweek.com/culture/art/carrboro-s-gordon-theisen-discusses-power-pessimism/
More Hot Spot
The Hot Spot
Dennis Hopper
1990
some images reblogged via
Noirsville.blogspot.com
https://noirsville.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-hot-spot-1990-i-can-find-it-in-dark.html
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