"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean..." --Raymond Chandler. A...

"I’m not trying to capture reality, I’m more interested in transporting viewers in my own dark fantasy."

Vienna 1950 Photo: Fred Lauzensky

I will show you how easy it is to create a noir night scene using a few simple masks in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Late Night Tales series Photographer Rupert Vandervell man, he's just so good at noirish street photography!

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We love classic Hollywood film noir. We love the attitude, the silvery images, the betrayal, the sweeping music, the fatalism, the flawed human characters, the hard-boiled detective, the femme fat…

A mysterious dream one night... or was i

In an attempt to capture the visual brilliance of film noir in one place, The Nitrate Diva presents 50 beautiful shots from the best of the genre.

Hétérotopie, Le Lieu, où selon Michel Foucault, l’imaginaire devient matière et, alors qu’il emprunte l’espace public en trois dimension pour son incarnation (et alors qu’il s’incarne en trois dimension dans l’espace public), il se réalise essentiellement ailleurs. Dans les lieux de débauches et maisons closes, je me glisse dans l’hétérotopie de l’exploration et de la libération sexuelle.Heterotopia, The Place where, according to Michel Foucault, the imaginary becomes substantial. In brothels, I enter into the heterotopia sexual exploration and liberation. There, condemned sexuality is protected and hidden, at once free and confined.

There is something special about a street after or during the rain the extra reflections, people behaving differently from normal. Here is a collection of shots that I think do a good job of showing this.

© Laurence Winram Available as a single archival print. Email [email protected] or purchase my artwork here www.artfinder.com/winram _MG_3907

luzfosca: René Jacques L’homme de nuit, 1939

Nick Miller's neo-noir images capture the cinematic nature of everyday life among the overpasses, high-rises, and neon signs.