Boy Meets Girl – and that’s no posed meeting as he came home last night on Christmas furlough… overcome with joy.

Nakedly Naked… and "recognizably prurient"

December 16, 2011

NY Times Lens Blog post about Weegee’s Naked Hollywood Exhibition:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/weegees-other-naked-city/

Brief excerpt:

Weegee’s Other Naked City
By David Dunlap
December 16, 2011

…Weegee may thus have some relevant [and prurient] lessons to offer artists, photographers and [prurient] museum-goers today.”
They are:
• Look all around, notice everything [pruriently]. “Often, this can be achieved by actually walking all around the subject, whatever it is, looking at it from every possible [prurient] perspective,” Weegee said.
• Think serially [pruriently]. “Think about a particular subject, theme or action, or even a piece of architecture that you might be [pruriently] interested in,” Weegee suggested. “Whenever you see another example, [pruriently] shoot it.”
• Photography is a [prurient] distortion. “I had to have a lens out of this [prurient] world to do full justice to the strange sights and [prurient] people which is Hollywood,” Weegee wrote.

Continuing the [prurient] tradition of advice, tips and tricks from Weegee and filling our little [prurient] electronic filing cabinet with [prurient] blog posts about a [prurient] blog post about a [prurient] blog post…

Recent Auctions: "Rent Party"

December 15, 2011

auction, Greenwich Village, Uncategorized

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Sold for: $154.01

From the auction listing:

WEEGEE Original 8 by 10 Photograph Rent Party 1942 Arthur Fellig Photo

This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch silver gelatin photograph made by noted celebrity and newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig.

Please note–The photo is in overall good condition, however there is light wrinkling along the upper margin of gthe print (which does not affect the overall quality of the image). There is no photographer’s imprint or signature, however we guarantee authenticity of this item so bid with confidence.

THIS ITEM comes from the estate of Peter Martin who was a close friend of WEEGEE and was the publisher of several photo magazines during the early 1950s. Martin’s photo studio in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a meeting place for many famous & aspiring photographers of the time.

Of course we could be wrong, but that photo was not made in 1942… ca. 1955 is closer to the truth…

In our little electronic filling cabinet this one goes in the “Auction” folder…