LOUIS ANTONELLI / FILMMAKER
A TRIBUTE TO IDA LUPINO CENTENNIAL


The Black and White Face
Held by a fascination,
I first looked when I was very young
a child, wanting to be held up
to see over the top
it was then that I saw a face with eyes
set in a solitary stare, alone
in a corner of an empty room
the eyes looked at me with a modern love
and from that moment
I learned that blue is a character
a fixed form on a spiral wheel
as it should be
part of daily reality , and caring not
who I was or where I came
but it mattered so little
the face of stark beauty, I loved
a face, not touched or held
but caressed with purest light , and wrapped
in darkest shadow, as it will always be
held by a fascination,
of what lives between the minutes
an intangible face, loved as only it can be
forever seen
in the camera eye view
with love and respect, for Ida Lupino 1918-2018

FIRST PUBLISHED BY VIA, 1992. @COPYRIGHT 1991 LOUIS ANTONELLI. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
NEW! 100TH BIRTHDAY SPECIAL EDITION OF IDA LUPINO BEYOND THE CAMERA BY MARY ANN ANDERSON
WITH IDA LUPINO FROM BEAR MANOR MEDIA


* DELUXE HARDCOVER, AND SOFTCOVER VERSIONS AVAILABLE *
ALSO FROM AUTHOR MARY ANN ANDERSON AND BEAR MANOR MEDIA




FIRST PUBLISHED AUGUST 12, 1995. @COPYRIGHT 1995 LOUIS ANTONELLI. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
