Lady Long Legs.Sedona
by Jennie Breeze
Title
Lady Long Legs.Sedona
Artist
Jennie Breeze
Medium
Photograph - Original Img_0687
Description
Self shadow portrait taken in Sedona, AZ. Sedona is a city that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the State of Arizona. Sedona's main attraction is its array of red sandstone formations. The formations appear to glow in brilliant orange and red when illuminated by the rising or setting sun. The red rocks form a popular backdrop for many activities, ranging from spiritual pursuits to the hundreds of hiking and mountain biking trails. Sedona was named after Sedona Arabella Miller Schnebly (18771950), the wife of Theodore Carlton Schnebly, the city's first postmaster, who was celebrated for her hospitality and industriousness. Sedona played host to more than sixty Hollywood productions from the first years of movies into the 1970s. The small town, which served as a kind of microcosm of Hollywood history, sits about 120 miles north of Phoenix, nestled between thousand-foot-high walls of stone in lushly forested Oak Creek Canyon and the wide open space of the Verde Valley, and it was the diversity of this unspoiled landscape that made it such an ideal location to shoot outdoor scenes. Stretching as far back as 1923, Sedonas signature red rocks were a fixture in major Hollywood productionsincluding enduring favorites such as Johnny Guitar, Angel and the Badman, Desert Fury, Blood on the Moon, and 3:10 to Yumabut typically were identified to audiences as the terrain of Texas, California, Nevada, and even Canadian border territory. For fifty years, this picturesque desert outpost quietly played host to Hollywood legends in the making, yet the town is rarely found in standard histories of the movies.
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November 22nd, 2014
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Chrisann Ellis
Jennie, Congrats!!! Your Fantastic Work has been Featured On The Home Page of Weekly Fun For All Mediums!!!
Jennie Breeze replied:
Thanks very much for the feature in your WEEKLY FUN FOR ALL MEDIUMS art group home page Chrisann!