The Five Codes of Film Noir

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“Gangsters sit in offices at midday with the shades pulled and the lights off. Ceiling lights are hung low and floor lamps are seldom more than five feet high. One always has the suspicion that if the lights were all suddenly flipped on the characters would shriek and shrink from the scene like Count Dracula at noontime.”

So writes Douglas Keesey in a new photobook from TASCHEN that looks at 100 all-time film noir favou...