W/NW Film Noir

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Rick Waldroup said:
ptpdprinter, perhaps you can enlighten us as to what film noir is?
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Film Noir is a motion picture genre. I guess that a "film noir photograph" is a picture that looks like (or actually is) a still from such a film. Your mostly empty street could easily be in a Film Noir movie. It looks like an environmental shot, just before cuts to the story inside a building. The atmosphere of Film Noir movies is made with wide environmental pictures that create a sense of (spooky) place. Your big room with someone in the doorway does that too. Unfortunately that weird light fixture is interesting, but it takes the focus off the actor, and so would probably be left on the cutting room floor.

I disagree with ptpdprinter's comment that most photos here do not represent the genre. It takes a bit of imagination to put some of them in a movie, but Film Noir is not all creepers in alleys.

It's dark and suspenseful. "Dark" is not always about the light. I was riffing on Film Noir with my "Lynchian" set from a few days ago. This one is straight "film noir":

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I do a lot of night photography but almost never on film. This one being an exception, but not sure if its "noir" enough. Maybe it needs a shadowy figure lurking somewhere?

Chicago's abandoned and deteriorating Cook County Hospital, Leica CL, Minolta Chiyoko "Super Rokkor" 45mm/f2.8, Ilford XP2:

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