Director

Sam Peckinpah

7 prints

Peckinpah's signature was dust. The sun-bleached browns and tans of the dying West, color drained by heat and time. The Wild Bunch used slow-motion violence to stretch moments of color, blood bright against desert sand, into something almost operatic. Straw Dogs' English grey and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid's amber desolation established color as elegy for things passing from the world.