Fragments of Noir

Sunday, 27 January 2019

Igniter for the Masses

His voice was a proletariat spark. An igniter for the masses. Anderson presumed to speak for his generation, the Starvation Army, whose faces were gaunt as skulls and whose ribcages when stripped of their tattered coverings, looked like xylophones hung from boney rails.

Jonathan Eeds
from introduction to Feels Like Rain
2013

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cover by Michelle Policicchio

https://blackmaskmagazine.com/blog/edward-anderson-depression-blues/

Saturday, 26 January 2019

Big Lonely City #32

Ted Croner

Rebecca Lepkoff

Francesc Catala Roca

German Lorca

Arthur Murray

Ruth Orkin

Ernst Haas

Brett Weston

Andreas Feininger

unknown

Alexander Alland

Lewis Hine

Mario De Biasi

Vivian Maier

Rebecca Lepkoff

Andreas Feininger

William Klein

Fred Herzog

Marvin Newman

Jack Delano

John W Church

unknown

Lisette Model

Arthur Seigel

Louis Draper

images reblogged via

oldnewyorklandia.tumblr.com

Footsteps Tap Fainter

The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk trails into tattered scraps, footsteps tap fainter in alleys) ; he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the want ads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boarding houses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not enough. At night, head swimming with wants, he walks by himself alone.

John Dos Passos

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Edward Burra
Silver Dollar Bar
1948