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the Un-lightable

ESSAY BY FALCON

Truth be told, as much as I wanted to pho-

tograph Katie, I wasn't sure I had the tools
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to create what I saw when I looked at her.

As much as it was an ac- stream of black and white

cident of my childhood, movies from the 1930s and

growing up in rural Con- 1940s. Long before coming

necticut, I had access to of age, I learned to savor

four, perhaps five, televi- the exotic beauty of Lamar,

sion channels. One, WPIX, Leigh, Garbo, Lombard,

Channel 11 in New York, Harlow, Bacall, and most

offered a never ending of all, Hayworth.

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