Fragments of Noir

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Big Lonely City #50

Marion Post Walcott

Drahomir Josef Ruzicka

unknown

Erich Hartmann

Mitchell Funk

Frank Paulin

Esther Bubley

Samuel Gottscho

unknown

Andreas Feininger

unknown

Francesca Catala Roca

unknown

J. Allen Hawkins

Herbert List

Thomas Hoepker

unknown

Walter Rosenblum

William Gedney

unknown

Elliot Erwitt

Arnold Eagle

Fred Herzog

Tom Scilipoti

Robert F. Kniesche

Michael Ryerson

Harry Callahan

Willem Van De Poll

Ruth Orkin

Gordon Parks

Pedro Guerrero

Fred Lyon

Wednesday, 3 July 2019

To Kill Time

I live in a place where shadows come out when the sun goes down, and they don't come out to play.

Moon shadows from the apartment building across the street fall onto my store. The apartment building is a bloated variation of a French Quarter crematorium, a smog-smudged slab of rock packed tight with cockroaches, people, and televisions, with barely enough spare breathing space left over for those who stop by to kill time by visiting the newly wed and the nearly dead.

Gustav Hasford

A Gypsy Good Time
1992

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Leslie Peterson

https://web.archive.org/web/20120324022521/http://www.gustavhasford.com/time.htm