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| Young Electric Sign Company - Las Vegas |
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| A typical Woolrich type location - New York City Public Archives |
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| Pomes frits - Sabine Weiss |
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| Los Angeles Bunker Hill- Los Angeles Times |
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| Francis Miller |
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| Michael Thevis? |
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| Piccadilly Circus 1953 - Terterian |
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| Mug Shot - Grandma Broke Bad - How Noir of her? |
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| Daniel Sackheim |
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| How noir of them? - Unknown |
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| Like a scene from a Woolrich story - New York City Public Archives |
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| How Noir of them? - Unknown |
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| A typical Woolrich type location - New York City Public Archives |
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| Cleo Moore in Over-Exposed (1956) |
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| A typical Woolrich type location - New York City Public Archives |
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| el - New York City - Unknown |
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| Bettie Page - Camera Club Shoot? Charles West? How Noir of her - Unknown |
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| Unknown |
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| A typical Woolrich type location - New York City Public Archives |
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| Machine shop secretary doing anything the boss wants? How Noir of Her? |
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| A typical Woolrich type location - New York City Public Archives |
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| Flamingo - Vegas |
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| One Arm Bandit Babes - Unknown |
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| What Happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas - Gloria Dawn |
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| Steaming can you blame them? - Night Steam - Unknown |
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| A typical Woolrich type location - New York City Public Archives |
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| Georges Martin - Paris Noir? Getty images |
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| A typical Woolrich type location - New York City Public Archives |
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| Garden of Allah Hotel - Hollywood - Unknown |
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| Backstage Stripper - Unknown |
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| Life Magazine |
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| Anticipation - Times Square? Unknown |
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| A Bowery Bum? - Boozing it up under the 3rd Ave. el - Unknown |
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| Louis Faure |
I have spent quite a bit of time trying to come up with one word that captures the essence of noir. I found it. Anomie: a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people. All of these images, whether of structures or people, connote soullessness. You can flash a smile, appeal to the baser instincts, or simply look into the camera but the message is the same: spiritual emptiness. And all of that rot morphs into an invitation to the devil. And very quickly, life goes downhill from there.
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