"I always knew my father loved photography. When he built his house, in 1937, he included a small darkroom adjacent to his library to develop his black and white photographs. It was a fascinating little room, dark, with funny smells, odd-shaped pots and pans on the shelf, and a clothesline hung high above. On the door he mounted an old life-size paper-maiché Mexican mask of a skull with a movable jaw - just ugly and frightening enough to keep small children far away.
Stanley Marcus was among the first in Dallas to have the latest cameras. Polaroids, Leicas, the Minox, the Hasselblad, and the Kodak Stereo Camera were but a few of his treasures, and he usually had one of them in his pocket ready to be used…" -
Jerrie Marcus Smith
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