1947
Flying saucers seen in New Jersey… July, 1947
July 6, 1947
Recent auction: “Weegee is flicker happy!” (negative)
“ARTHUR FELLIG WEEGEE FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER NYC Old Photo Negative 190A”
“You are bidding on a guaranteed authentic 4X5 original negative as shown- This negative is from the PM New York City Daily News between 1940 – 1948.”
Images and words, above, copied from ebay.
Sold for $415.00
The seller will even sell you a print (8×10 – 24×36) of the negative, and for $35 send you a CD of the “Photoshopped” image “that you can use for your reproductions.”
And the photographer was?
“Weegee Tries His Hand with the Flickers.” Perhaps a slight variant image was published on February 1947…
Miss May too…
“and the popular Weegee…”

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 27, 1947
“The Photo League, 30 E. 29th St., Manhattan, a group whose members are usually extremely serious, will let there hair down…”
From the great BPL Newsstand, the entire paper can be read here…
Does the Camera Lie?

Brooklyn Eagle, February 2, 1947
(Thoughtful review of Weegee’s People by Howard Swain, a few months after it was published…)
From the great Brooklyn Newsstand…













