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“MORE MURDER PIX”

September 23, 2021
1941, exhibition


“Call of The Freaks”; King Oliver and his Orchestra; 1929

Photography By John Adam Knight

MORE MURDER PIX, also fires, accidents and freak shots were demanded by visitors, therefore Arthur (Weegee) Fellig, as shown…, hangs out the sign for a second edition of his fascinating exhibition at the photo League, 31 E. 21st St.


New York Post, September 1941

…the Photo League, 31 E. 21st St., second edition of Weegee’s pictures of night violence… New York. A fascinating…

New York Post, September 1941


“The (New) Call of The Freaks”; Luis Russell and his Orchestra; Luis Russell; Paul Barbarin; Albert Nicholas; J. C. Higginbotham; Henry Allen; Charlie Holmes; Russell; Barbarin; September 9, 1929

“There will be additional examples of the photographer’s work.”

September 14, 2021
1941, exhibition


The New York Times, September 14, 1941

NOTES OF CAMERA WORLD

…The exhibition, “Murder Is My Business,” by Weegee (Arthur Fellig) is being extended at the Photo League, 31 East Twenty-first Srtreet, until Sept. 23. There will be additional examples of the photographer’s work.


“A Good Man Is Hard To Find”; Les Brown and his Orchestra; Butch Stone; Eddie Green; Publication date: September 14, 1941

“Art Notes”

September 10, 2021
1941, exhibition


“Says Who? Says You, Says I!”; Cab Calloway and his Orchestra.; Cab Calloway; Mercer; Arlen; Harding; Publication date: September 10, 1941


Daily Worker, September 10, 1941, p.7

…Weegee’s (Arthur Fellig) exhibition is proving so popular at the Photo League that it is being extended one week to Sept. 23. A new and second edition of the exhibition is now on view at the Photo League Gallery, at 31 E. 21st St. Hours 1 to 10 week days, 2 to 6, Saturdays.
Daily Worker, September 10, 1941, p.7


“Laughing Boy Blues”; Woody Herman And His Orchestra; Woody Herman and The Laughing Boy; Sammy Cahn; Saul Chaplin; Publication date: September 10, 1941

“The opera shot got the most laughs.”

June 3, 2021
1944, exhibition, PM


“Woman Laughing (Continuous)”


PM, June 2, 1944 pp. 12-13 (photos by Weegee and Arthur Leipzig)

A Weegee Gets Attention At Museum of Modern Art

The big picture at lower right is the center of attraction in Weegee’s section of the Art in Progress photo exhibition now on view at the Museum of Modern Art. It shows Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh and Lady Decies outside the Metropolitan Opera House – and the eloquent facial reaction of another woman. The other pictures on this page were snapped by Weegee as visitors to the photo exhibition looked at his pictures. Four out of his five exhibits have appeared in PM. The opera shot got the most laughs. Weegee reports.

Staten Island Girl Scouts Turn Farmerettes


Everybody’s Laughing, Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra; Billie Holiday; Lerner; Oakland, 1938

Art in Progress, May 24 – September 17, 1944.
(Three out of five photos appeared as news items; “I Cried…” was used in a photography column; “The Critic” made its debut in this article…)


Laughing At Life, Billie Holiday, 1940


Weegee, “Installation view of Weegee’s exhibition in Art in Progress, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1944″ (Weegee’s World, p. 28)


Screenshot of checklist, moma.org


Laughing Boogie, Eddie Chamblee and The Band; Chamblee, 1951


Everyone’s Laughing, Clyde McPhatter, Winfield Scott, 1954

“Coney Island Beach” + “Sardines” = WE and WEEGEE at the Whitney

February 22, 2019
exhibition


Whitney Museum, 2019

[Arshile Gorky (1902-1948), The Artist and His Mother, 1926-c. 1936.] – from whitney.org

Weegee in the wild…


screenshot, whitney.org

(Small image file – 300 pixels wide, can’t see the back of the print, good to know that it’s a posthumous print, this may not be accurate: “for PM, a tabloid-style newspaper for which he did occasional freelance work.” – “occasional”?)


screenshot, whitney.org

When in Budapest… “WEEGEE – THE FAMOUS, 1935–1960” at the Mai Manó House

November 18, 2018
exhibition

“WEEGEE – THE FAMOUS, 1935–1960
October 18, 2018 – January 20, 2019.
Tuesday – Sunday 12:00 – 19:00.
Curator: Peter Baki”

“Weegee, The Famous, 1935 – 1960 is organised in the framework of the Hungarian Photomonth 2018. The exhibition has been realised in collaboration with the Institute for Cultural Exchange, Tübingen…”

maimano.hu/en/
maimano.hu/en/kiallitasok/weegee-the-famous-1935-1960
maimano.hu/en/weegee_usher_fellig_biography

104 great photos. Beautiful exhibition space. Looks like a great exhibition…

“Weegee: World’s Greatest Photographer”

December 31, 2017
exhibition


(“Weegee,” Howard Greenberg Gallery, March 21, 2017)

Excellent exhibition: “Weegee” at the Howard Greenberg Gallery, February 16 – April 1, 2017.

Bunch of classic images, some lesser-known images, and a few images we were not familiar with… One photo was made in Jersey City. A pair of photos of a woman and her periscope were made in Hollywood, ca. 1950… Almost entirely the prints were on the larger side, 11×14″-ish paper. (Prices were approx. $3,500-$12,000. Perhaps, the smaller the photo, the smaller the price. If an 11×14″ photo sold for $10,000, then that would be about $65/square inch. Or, a little less than $10,000/square foot.) Some prints were annotated, there was at least one Culver stamp, and several Acme Newspictures stamps…

“From the Picture Press”

October 2, 2017
exhibition


MoMA, “From the Picture Press,” 1973 (with arrows pointing to the Weegee photos)

Installation views from moma.org.

“From the Picture Press” January 30-April 29, 1973, at MoMA.

“‘From the Picture Press’ an exhibition of over 225 photographs selected from newspaper files of the past five decades.” (Press release, January, 1973)

Divided into seven sections: “ceremonies, winners, losers, good news, alarums [alarms] and conundrums, confrontations and disasters.”

The previous (November 7, 1972 – January 21, 1973) photo exhibition was of course: “Diane Arbus.”
For more info (installation views, checklist, three press releases, or two and one wall label) on Arbus exhibition: moma.org

For more info on “From the Picture Press”: moma.org

(To be continued…)

Weegee Whitney 2016

August 18, 2017
exhibition

Whitney Museum, August 7, 2016

A pair of Weegee distortions hanging out with the cool kids in the “Price of Fame” area in the “Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection” exhibition…
(Perhaps coincidentally, four out of four of the not-living-anymore, and four out of six of all the photographers on that wall, died in New York, NY…)

“Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection
April 2, 2016 – April 2, 2017”
“Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection offers new perspectives on one of art’s oldest genres. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s holdings, the more than two hundred works in the exhibition show changing approaches to portraiture from the early 1900s until today. Bringing iconic works together with lesser-known examples and recent acquisitions in a range of mediums…”
from Whitney website: whitney.org