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San Francisco Noir
San Francisco Noir
San Francisco Noir
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San Francisco Noir

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Following in the footsteps of classic films like The Maltese Falcon and The Lady from Shanghai, veteran photographer Fred Lyon creates images of San Francisco in high contrast with a sense of mystery. In this latest offering from the photographer of San Francisco: Portrait of a City 1940–1960, Lyon presents a darker tone, exploring the hidden corners of his native city. Images taken in the foggy night are illuminated only by neon signs, classic car headlights, apartment windows, or streetlights. Sharply dressed couples stroll out for evening shows, drivers travel down steep hills, and sailors work through the night at the old Fisherman's Wharf. Stylistically, many of the photographs are experimental the noir tone is enhanced by double exposures, elements of collage, and blurred motion. These strikingly evocative duotone images expose a view of San Francisco as only Fred Lyon could capture.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 10, 2017
ISBN9781616896782
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    San Francisco Noir - Fred Lyon

    McEvoy

    Photographer Fred Lyon is a San Francisco flaneur — a flaneur with a purpose, if I may modify the definition of the word — and this freewheeling, Western metropolis is Fred’s muse, his artist’s canvas, his passion, his obsession. He has a zeal for San Francisco that has no bounds.

    He wanders the city streets, back alleys, and up and down its steep hills with his ever-present third eye: his camera, usually with a standard, midrange lens. He feels that a long telescopic lens takes him too far away from his subjects. Fred has had this third eye since he was a youth when he began shooting pictures with a Brownie box camera. And now the results are on the pages of this striking new book, San Francisco Noir.

    When I first looked at Fred’s images for this book, it became clear to me that his concept of noir was an attitude, a state of mind that he has been internalizing for more than seven decades. As a fellow San Franciscan who has reported and written on the city and its characters (including Fred) for just as long, I could understand how this lengthy timeline brought him to this idea. To him, noir is what you get when you combine a yearning for the dark, the moody, and the edgy street

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