“…wrote a piece about beauteous legs across the Hudson. Delighted, the Jersey City Journal and Loew’s Journal Sq. Theater joined hands for a Legs Beautiful Contest on the great stage. Some 140 entrants, 16-60, were lined up in squads of 15 and judged from knees down, as above. No. 3 is a ringer, for comic relief. He’s an usher.
Photos by Ray Platnick, PM Staff”
PM, March 2, 1941
PM, August 27, 1941
All images are screen shots from ebay.
(The “envelope” is not included in the auction.)
Words copied from the ebay listing:
Winning bid:
US $135.83
Ended:
June 02, 2016, 8:49PM
Seller: thephotoarchive
Words copied from the ebay listing:
“1947 WeeGee Arthur Fellig Portrait by Morris Engel Old Photo Negative 464A”
“You are bidding on a guaranteed authentic 4×5 original negative as shown. This negative is from the PM New York City Daily News between 1940 – 1948.
Fine condition a vivid, sharp, high quality negative.
The negative has been inverted for this auction.
The envelope shown for provenance and
IS NOT INCLUDED
with this auction!
I use the word “photo” in the title just for search purposes. From the original time period.
NOT A COPY NEGATIVE!
WITH THE PURCHASE OF THIS NEGATIVE, FOR AN ADDITIONAL FEE, YOU
CAN HAVE THIS IMAGE PRINTED IN SIZES
FROM
8×10 TO 24×36…
Your image will be cropped down to the desired
printing size so some portions may be cropped
off.
MESSAGE ME AFTER THE PURCHASE WITH
YOUR SELECTION.
For an additional fee you can also have this negative
Photoshopped…”
The Morris Engel Archive is here.
For sale:
Photo of Louella Parsons
Inscribed: “To Jimmy / Weegee.”
“With a two page typed letter (November 31 [sic] 1950), signed, corrected and with a long postscript in the photographer’s hand. Weegee writes Los Angeles Herald-Examiner columnist Jimmy Starr regarding his promotional tour for his photographs and a 16 mm film…”
“…I photographed places that have never been photographed before…inside JAILS…BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE STRIP TEASERS…I will devote my time to my new book ‘ONLY HUMAN’ which will be published next summer…It will only make my former book ‘The Naked City’…look like a fairy story for little kiddies.”
“He notes that he is enclosing the above photo and two others…”
($7,500)
The above quotes from Peter L. Stern & Company’s website
More info here.
We spotted this photo on the website of Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd.
“8 x 10 inch silver gelatin photograph, with ferrotype finish… $10,000.”
All images and above words from the booksellers website.
For more info visit the booksellers website.
(Printing is a little unusual… In our electronic filing cabinet, file this post under unique old fotos for sale and crime…)
“I’ve Got a Secret” – April 30, 1958
“…The famous New York photographer Weegee took this lens and put it on his own personal camera and made some very unusual pictures, which I would like to show you now. You must guess who they are.”
