Tag: Weegee
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A Seattle Man Discovered a Trove of Long-Lost Weegee Photos From 1937 in His Kitchen Cabinet | artnet News
A Seattle Man Discovered a Trove of Long-Lost Weegee Photos From 1937 in His Kitchen Cabinet | artnet News A man found in his kitchen cabinet a box of 73 photographs from Weegee’s time as a freelance news photographer in New York City. via artnet News: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lost-weegee-photos-discovered-1555396 The man originally bought the 73 images at…
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This Graphic Novel is About the Crime Photographer Weegee
This Graphic Novel is About the Crime Photographer Weegee Weegee, the pseudonym of Arthur (Usher) Fellig, was a press photographer in New York City who’s best known for his gritty photos of urban life, death, via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/06/15/this-graphic-novel-is-about-the-crime-photographer-weegee/ Weegee, the pseudonym of Arthur (Usher) Fellig, was a press photographer in New York City who’s best…
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Weegee: King of the Nighttime Streets – The New York Times
Weegee: King of the Nighttime Streets Weegee’s images of swells and speakeasies, crime and crowds, or perps and play are a singular record of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/weegee-king-of-the-nighttime-streets/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body In this cast of characters, Weegee was the Dante of New York’s nighttime demimonde. His photos, of swells and…
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Photographer Unearths a Wealth of True Crime Photos from the LAPD Archives
Photographer Unearths a Wealth of True Crime Photos from the LAPD Archives – Feature Shoot From Weegee to L.A. Confidential, both real and fiction crime stories have been well established as an object of intrigue. From April 25-27, Fototeka will be exhibiting images from a massive archive of Los Angeles Police Department crime scene and…
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“Murder is My Business” – Photos by Weegee at I.C.P.
Weegee’s Killer Decade Arthur Fellig prowled the streets of New York with a stogie, a Speed Graphic and an unmatched feel for the real city. A new show, “Weegee: Murder is My Business,” shows how. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/weegees-killer-decade/?pagewanted=all A sprawling show devoted to an intense decade in the city’s history opens Friday at the…
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INTERVIEW: "Famous Photographers Tell How – Weegee"
Famous Photographers Tell How – An Interview with Weegee (1958) “It’s like a modern Aladdin’s Lamp, you rub it and, in this case the camera, you push the button and it gives you the things you want.” Click to Play (Right Click & Save to Download): “Weegee” MP3 by Weegee, 1958. From the 1958 LP…
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Something of the Night: Weegee – Telegraph
Something of the Night: Weegee Capturing the soul of his beloved New York, in all its grit and glory, was what the photographer Arthur Fellig – aka Weegee – lived for. But he wasn’t exactly a stickler for realism, writes Lucy Davies via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6616026/Something-of-the-Night-Weegee.html Capturing the soul of his beloved New York, in all…
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Through Weegee’s Lens – New York Times
BACK in the 1970s, a gutsy blond named Jill Freedman armed with a battered Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city. Influenced by the Modernist documentarian André Kertész, with references to the hard-edged, black-and-white works of Weegee and Diane Arbus,…