17 Days: The Story of Newspaper History in the Making
From the amazing Prelinger Archives…
At about 1 minute and 55 seconds into this entertaining bit of propaganda: “With the lone exception of PM…”
June 30, 1945…
Sold for $3,400
Sold for $2,400
SwannGalleries, 12/2012 auction… (Images from SwannGallery website.)
Pretty good prices for two-too often dismissed “distortions”…
“Weegee is a photoshop meme based on the avatar of Luigi. Placing Weegee in an image creates awkward situations and a sense of discomfort.”
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PM Daily, November 26, 1943, photos by Morris Gordon
“American boys don’t beg.” That’s the slogan of the ragamuffin parade put on yesterday by the Madison Square Boys’ Club in an effort to stamp out the habit of street soliciting by children. Here boys representing many of the United Nations pass in the line of march…
The highlight of the parade was this group. Churchill and Roosevelt drive Hitler and Tojo by their respective necks. Procession started from 301 E. 29th St.
This bit of symbolism represents Mayor La Guardia thrashing the hide out of the Black Market. Esoteric stuff, eh?
Great NYPL blog post: “Thanksgiving Ragamuffin Parade.”
East 29th Street, looking west.
East 29th Street, looking east.
The ragamuffin has vanished…
Weegee, “Cheetah dining out at Ciro’s”, 1951, 11″ x 14″
Sold for $99.00
Weegee, [Louis Armstrong and band and audience], ca. 1953, 8″ x 10″
Sold for $499.00
PM Daily, November 22, 1943
Wee found this post in the drafts folder… it was made some time ago… the image files are from a museum’s website (perhaps MoMA?)… don’t remember exactly what this was about… perhaps the concept was to create Weegee-Aget mash-ups… nothing and more nothing…
“House on Haunted Hill” directed and produced by William Castle, 1959…
can be seen here: http://archive.org/details/The_House_On_Haunted_Hill
Screams!!!
“The ghosts are moving tonight, restless, hungry…
I’ll show you the only really haunted house in the world…”
(Weegee had a connection with this movie… He photographed William Castle at the premiere and the skeletons in the movie theatre…)
(photos from ebay)
Weegee or maybe not Weegee or maybe Weegee…
(Happy Birthday Akiyo…)
WEEGEEWEEGEEWEEGEE 