Noir photography

12 different cocktails, 4 friends, equals 48 cocktails. And we managed to get most of the photos in focus. This project was really just a good excuse to have a few cocktails with some friends. Cocktails have a classic, sophisticated and seductive feel. I wanted to create photos that matched that. Film noir came to

Hollywood stars were never more glamorous than in the photographs taken by studio photographers to publicise black and white thrillers in the 1940s and 50s. Here is a selection of the most memorable

Walter Wanger was a successful independent producer who in the 1940's was married to actress Joan Bennett. Bennett was in several Wanger pro...

Foreshadowing is an important tool for creating suspense and setting the scene for the story arc of your novel. Read the 8 laws of foreshadowing.

Inspiration: The golden age of Hollywood

by Matt Frederick

London was covered in "fog" at the beginning of the 20th Century, culminating in the Great Smog in 1952.

Detective Silhouette

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.

Film Noir photos

Film Noir

We celebrate the wonderful world of film noir, where world weary private eyes solve crimes from within a fog of cigarette smoke despite the machinations of a fabulous femme fatale

Cleaning house the other day I came across a dusty box housing some old photographs. They looked like they were taken in 1947 on the set of some RKO movie directed by Fritz Lang. Turned out they were prints of...

Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy - In The Wee Wee HoursAlbum: Hoodoo Man Blues (1965)