Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Sunday 28 February 2021

Always Behind Us

         Somebody lets us loose like a toad out of a matchbox and we jump and jump and jump and the guy always behind us, and when he gets tired he stomps us to death and our guts squirt out on each side of the boot of All Merciful Providence. The son-of-a-bitch !

  • excerpt from
  • Nightmare Alley
  • William Lindsay Gresham
  • 1946

  • image
  • Fernand Pelez

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/19th-century-paintings-n08738/lot.48.html

Big Lonely City #151


Earl Leaf

Gordon Coster

Henry Grant

Edward Weston

Harold Mayer

Jules Aarons

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Stanley Kubrick

Louis Stettner

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Marcel Bovis

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Nicolas Miller

Roger Schall

Ruth Orkin

Sabine Weiss

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Friday 26 February 2021

Hawk Koch


Chinatown

Gorky Park

Drowning Pool

Pope of Greenwich Village

The Parallax View

Hangman's Heart


         ........ warm as the very devil when the referee's raisin' your hand, and cold as a hangman's heart when he aint.
The Bruiser
Jim Tully
1936

Thursday 25 February 2021

Vettriano


       I live in a world of heartbreak. I just seem to be more creative when in some sort of emotional distress.

Jack Vettriano

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Vettriano
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Mosaic Noir #152

Phantom Lady

Boardwalk Empire


The Blue Dahlia

Gorky Park

Death of a Cyclist

Farewell My Lovely


Mr Arkadin

The Cat's Meow

Killers Kiss

The Quiet American

Force of Evil

Romeo is Bleeding