Weegee: Society of the Spectacle
International Center of Photography
January 23, 2025 – May 5, 2025
exhibition
Weegee at the Morgan
“Distortion, 51st Street and Broadway, 1950s”
“Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography,” Morgan Library and Museum, May 17, 2024
“Autopsy of the Spectacle”
Screenshots from henricartierbresson.org
“Weegee, Autopsy of the Spectacle,” January 30 – May 19, 2024, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.
An excellent catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Weegee at the Diner
New York City, 2023
Weegee at the Met
Metropolitan Museum, November 2023
Weegee’s [Strike Over Murder of Union Agent], ca. 1940, in the exhibition: “Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s” (September – December, 2023) at the Metropolitan Museum…
[Memorials]
Coney Island; June Winters; H.E. Perette; H. Pine; Charles Sanford; Mayfair (K124 A)
Coney Island; June Winters; H.E. Perette; H. Pine; Charles Sanford; Mayfair (K124 B)
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…
“Memorial Day, 1941, from the Prelinger Archives
“FOR REFERENCE ONLY…”
(1) Fire Engines Coming to A Stop; (2) Fire Engines Pumping; (3) Fire Engines Departing; (4) Fire Engines Passing By; (5) Police Squad Cars with Sirens Coming to A Stop; Major (5004 B); 1960
NYPL, February 4, 2022
“THIRD AVE. and 100 TH. ST.”
FOR REFERENCE ONLY
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
PICTURE COLLECTION
New York City – FIRES
FEB – 1945
CREDIT PHOTO BY WEEGEE THE FAMOUS
Photocopy/laser print of a great Weegee photo… housed in the NYPL Picture Collection until it was “formally transferred” to the Library’s Photography Collection in 2020… It’s included in the exhibition: “Taryn Simon // The Color of a Flea’s Eye: The Picture Collection“… “Through May 15, 2022…”
NYPL, February 4, 2022
“A Faded Photograph;” Whispering Jack Smit; Charles Kenny; Nick Kenny; Richard Howard; Decca (3437 B); September 13, 1940
Colorful Birds Eye View of “THIRD AVE. and 100 TH. ST.” in 2021.
“Fire Engine Effects;” Columbia (YB 1)
“All Out for Weegee”
“Take It Off The ‘E’ String”; Peter Piper and his Orchestra; Cahn; Akst; November 1943
PM, September 10, 1941, p.21
All Out for Weegee
Dear Editor:
Due to popular demand, Weegee’s Exhibit Murder Is My Business will continue to Sept. 13, at the Photo League, 31 E/ 21st St., from 2 to 10 p.m. daily and everybody is welcome.
Here are some comments on Weegee’s show in the comments book:
“Worth the price of admission.” P.S. admission is free.
“I’d rather see Gypsy Rose strip.”
“For people with strong constitutions and weak minds.”
New York
PHOTO LEAGUE
PM, September 10, 1941, p.21
“He’s The Best In The Business”; Terry Timmons; Charles Singleton; Howard Biggs’s Orchestra; RCA Victor (20-5227); 1953
“At the Photo League…”
“VOODOO MOON (Enlloro)”; Enric Madriguera and his Orchestra; Tito Rodriguez; Sunshine; Morales; Blanco; Victor (27759-A); Publication date: September 26, 1941
EXHIBITIONS:
New York Sun, September 26, 1941
“Lets Get Together”; Felix Gross; Felix Gross & his Sextette; Swing Beat (129-B); Publication date: September 26, 1941
CAMERA CLUBS:
New York Sun, September 26, 1941
“Since We Put A Radio Out In The Henhouse”; Hoosier Hot Shots; Finley; Hull; Okeh (06435); Publication date: September 26, 1941
EDUCATION:
New York Sun, September 26, 1941
The state of Photography, light writing, from the New York Sun, September 26, 1941…
“It Isn’t a Dream Any More”; Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra; Jo Stafford; Charles Newman; Walter G. Samuels; Victor (27710-A); Publication date: September 26, 1941
Entirely irrelevant, new museum news:
The New York Times, September 26, 1922
“Rocks in My Bed”; Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra; Duke Ellington; Ivie Anderson; RCA Victor (27639-A); Publication date: September 26, 1941
Weegee Warhol Window
“Uncle Josh in a Museum”; Cal Stewart, September 1903
“Smash the Window”; Jolly Tunesmith; Standard (F-14001-A); 1947
“Weegee Warhol Window,” 8/28/2021
“Hanging in The Hock Shop Window”; Kay Lorraine; Harold Grant’s Orchestra; M. Leeds; F. Wise; H. Grant; Standard (T-2097-A)
“EXPERIENCE UNNECESSARY”; Sarah Vaughan; Hugo Peretti And His Orchestra; Shelley; Whitman; Peretti; Creatore; 1955
“Weegee Warhol Window,” 8/28/2021
Weegee in the window, Park Avenue South, beautiful building, five years older than Weegee…
“Window Shopping”; Hank Williams; His Drifting Cowboys; Joseph; MGM (11283-B); 1952
“(How Much Is) That Hound Dog in The Window”; Homer and Jethro; Bob Merrill; RCA Victor (20-5280); March 19, 1953
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