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| Dixie working on an airplane, during WWII |
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| picture source Teasing photographer, and former silent film star, Harold Lloyd. Lloyd also photographed the real Monroe & Bettie Page! Photos of young Dixie I found randomly on google. Mostly tumblr... |
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The Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque, Dixie Evans, died this month on August 3rd. I found out a week ago. She was 86 years old.
I had the pleasure of meeting her in 2004/2005 while I was a student at CalArts. Her ranch in Helendale, CA was one of the first stops during an epic road trip that would lead my classmates and I to The Spiral Jetty. I will never forget Andrew Freeman's "Into the Field". Those excursions into vast desert lands were pure magic. Youthful, fiery magic.
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I shot this image of her in 2005. I titled it, To Dixie, with luv, xx Ava. Soon after, she would leave her ranch home and head out to Vegas. Her Miss Exotic World Ranch was a time capsule in the desert sun.
