Weegee, PM, August 11, 1941
Bandit…
Weegee, Weegee’s World, 1997, p. 60
August 11, 2022
Weegee, Herald Tribune, August 4, 1940
Heat-Wave Nocturne in Downtown New York
Weegee, “Naked City,” 1945
Unidentified Photographer, ca. 2022 (Screenshot)
PM, July 21, p. 32 (Photos by Weegee and Irving Haberman)
Yes, It Was Hottest Day of the Year All Right, All Right
Yesterday thermometer showed 92.6 at 4:45 p.m. – highest of 1942. At 1 a.m yesterday it was 85 – that was when this mam opened fire hydrant.
PM, July 21, p. 32
The New York Post, July 19, p. 19
Photography
By John Adam Knight
Worth Anyone’s $4
[$4 in July 1945 had the same buying power as $65.48 in June 2022.]All of this is background for a brief review of a fine new picture book, Weegee’s “Naked City” (Essential Books, 243 pp., $4). This is Weegee at his former best, which means virtually unequaled. Most of these pictures were made before the Museum of Modern Art’s kiss of death took effect, and the purchaser need have little fear of being stuck with serious “art.”
What he will get for his $4 is a collection of grauvre reproductions of about 200 stark almost primitive photographs of death, despair and degeneracy in New York between midnight and morning. Though technically poor photographs, almost every one of them tells a gripping, human story, one of the best reasons I know for the invention of the camera.
The paper shortage denies me the pleasure of describing dozens of these pictures individually. I have space only to urge every one interested to buy the book and learn the lesson that Weegee once knew that honesty, a genuine interest in people – all people – and a recognition of what constitutes human interest in pictures can make any of you nearly as great as Weegee once was.
The New York Post, July 19, p. 19
PM, July 18, 1945
Rave Notice
There’s a new book in the stores today by Weegee, who bills himself as “the famous” – and is…
PM, July 18, 1945
Weegee, Naked City, 1945
77 years ago today…
Happy “Naked City” Day!
“GUN CAMERA OF ATTACKS ON TOKYO BAY AND THE NAGOYA AREA”; Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Photographic Center; July 17, 24, 25, 1945, etc.
77 years ago today…
Elmira Star, June 16, 1925
Carrying or owning firearms without permit is a grave offense in the state of New York, but on the East Side guns are bootlegged as freely as hooch. Arthur Fellig, a photographer, tells me that while he was walking along Third Avenue the other night a gorilla approached him and asked him if he needed a gun, saying he would rent him one for a dollar [in June 1925 $1 had the same buying power as $16.70 in May 2022] a day.
Elmira Star, June 16, 1925
PM, March 2, 1941
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PM, March 9, 1941
A picture with somebody in it sells better than a picture of a lifeless object. So Weegee sometimes puts himself in his picture-shooting them by “remote control.” Here he is posing as a “curious passerby” looking at the body of a Brooklyn murder victim found in trunk near the Gowanus Canal.
PM, March 9, 1941
PM, March 9, 1941
Weegee makes friends readily. On a Chinatown assignment he got this New Year’s lucky wish from a Chinese girl. He has a photo of her painting it pinned above his bed (see picture on next page). It is characteristic of him to have his picture taken this way. The cigar is standard equipment.
PM, March 9, 1941
PM, March 9, 1941
Weegee’s room shows his devotion to his job. On top of his regular radio is a police short-wave radio and a loudspeaker attached to it dangles over his bed. On the floor are his special “murder shoes” – at left – and his “snow shoes.” He keeps his “fire shoes” in his car. The wall decorations are examples of his work and certificates of awards for prize-winning pictures. The cardboard boxes at the extreme right are his disorderly “files.” The typewriter is his latest acquisition. He has recently taken up writing – a field in which he shows rather startling talent. We don’t know what the Flit is for.
PM, March 9, 1941
Weegee (1899-1968) and Mary Margaret McBride (1899-1976), July 19, 1945
Happy Birthday Weegee… born 123 years ago today…
Weegee (1899-1968), Coney Island, 1940.
Janet Sobel (1894-1968), Milky Way, 1945
John D. Graham (1888-1961), Celia, 1944-45.
MoMA, May 23, 2022
…artists born in present day Ukraine…
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