Weegee and Mel Harris, Naked Hollywood, 1953

Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon, 1975

Hollywood Babylon

Naked Hollywood

Hollywood Babylon

Naked Hollywood

Hollywood Babylon

Weegee and Mel Harris, Naked Hollywood, 1953

Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon, 1975

Spheres of Influence…

…probably not, but there are interesting connections and coincidences… Anger’s Magick and Weegee’s Psychic…

…share some of the same targets… end of the real…

TO BE CONTINUED…

… June 2011

“It measure 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 with an 1 1/4 inch border on the right side.,A: The back is blank. I have owned it for 40 years. The mans shoulder on the right shows a slight dent that is only seen in side light./ The left also shows a small dent that is only seen in the side light. on…”

Sold for: $650.00
Apr 28, 2011

“If 100 Centre St., where Mr. Strauss-Kahn was denied bail and ordered sent to Rikers Island, feels like stepping back into a grimy ’30s Weegee photograph, then the Brooklyn courthouse is its psychological opposite: a sparkling monument to justice, only a few years old, with polished marble surfaces and tasteful fixtures.” Wall Street Journal, Ralph/Gardner, June 2011.

“Grimy”?

;-)

To Be Continued…

(snapshots from Weegee books of people in cars…)

CG, 04/15/2011

Popular Photography, May 1940
Perhaps coincidentally wee photographed this yesterday, thinking about Miroslav Tichy (1926-2011), and today we learned of his passing… Of course both invented and/or created lenses and camera apparatuses, and shared a fondness for photographing “gals”… perhaps only slightly irrelevant…

CG, Weegee at the Whitney, 04/10/2011

Two Weegee photos at the nice little basement lounge area, (between Untitled and the restrooms)… Simply Add Boiling Water and Top Hats in Trouble… and a bunch of other great B&W NYC photos… the usual suspects… Frank, Faurer, Levitt, Levinstein, etc.

(to be continued…)

Johanna Daly and Ruth Thomas at Billy Rose’s Diamond Horsehoe…