Dead Men

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

Raymond Chandler

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Rather Than Hope

         Freedom is a form of rootlessness there, while experience teaches futility rather than hope, and people fail to make more than fleeting contact with one another or find a place in a society that guarantees every wish and whim is within easy reach but remains utterly unconcerned with their actual fate.

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Staying Up Much Too Late ; Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
and the Dark Side of the American Psyche
Gordon Theisen
2007

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Narrow Margin

Narrow Margin
Richard Fleischer
1952

The Wrong Kind

I don't like jail ; they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Charles Bukowski

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Mauro Mazzara

Big Lonely City #46

 Roger Schall

John Ahern

Ansel Adams

Jack Delano

Robert Doisneau

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 Tony Linck

Nancy Bulkeley

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Max Yavno

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Berenice Abbott

Otto Bettmann

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Dick Whittington

Roger Wood

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Ernst Haas

Walter Silver

Jay Jafee

Fred Lyon

Alfred Eisenstadt

John Albok

Germaine Krull

Greg Girard

L Raveau

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Andrey Revyakin

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Arthur Rothstein

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Al Ponte

Robert Frank

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Andreas Feininger

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Alfred Gescheidt

 Peter Linbergh

Ralph Crane

Irving Browning

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