Professional Photographer

A Return to Glamour
Celebrity Photographer Alan Weissman
Revisits Film Noir

By Stephanie Boozer

The phrase film noir conjures up images from shadowy 1940s cinematic melodramas like Double Indemnity and This Gun for Hire. The dark and mysterious world of film noir also recalls those glossy Hollywood glamour shots of screen divas like Betty Davis and Rita Hayworth, shown draped over fainting sofas in the diabolical pose of the scheming femme fatale.