Phillips de Pury & Company

US $1,300.00
WEEGEE (ARTHUR FELLIG), 1899-1968
Untitled (distortion), 1950s
Gelatin silver print. 7 ⅝ x 9 ½ in. (19.4 x 24.1 cm). Photo-Representatives’ and ‘Credit Photo by Weegee’ stamps on the verso.
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, NEW YORK

Although a Weegee museum would be a dream come true…

In Finland there’s the Weegee Exhibition Centre:
“EMMA is a centre providing experiences and knowledge. The new premises in the WeeGee building will be the setting for quality international exhibitions. The 5000 square metres exhibition area is the largest of any museum in Finland.”

With a Weegee Shop! and a Weegee Cafe!!!

“Café WeeGee in the entrance lobby is open to visitors during EMMA’s opening hours:
Tues. 11.00-18.00
Wed.-Thurs. 11.00-20-00
Fri-Sun. 11.00-18.00
The Café offers quality café, lunch and catering services.”

http://emma.museum/eng/info/weegee.php

When in Finland…

http://www.photoformulary.com/images/2008Newsletters%20folder/June2008NL.pdf

From the Photographer’s Form-ulary June 2008 newsletter, a tip of the hat to photographer Bill J ay, who took the above photo of Fellig, has a new book of portraits, and owns a dog named Weegee…

“Another portrait,
this one of Arthur
Fellig, the crime photographer of
the streets of New York City, was
taken under a bare bulb in Fellig’s
seedy hotel room. Bill didn’t know
it at the time, nor perhaps did Fel-
lig but Fellig was dying of a brain
tumor.
Earlier in his career Fellig slept
in his clothes, a police radio
nearby. When he heard a radio call
about a crime serious enough for
his attention, he raced to the scene,
often beating the cops. His seem-
ing uncanny ability to pop up out
of nowhere earned him the nick-
name of Ouija. Fellig couldn’t
spell, but liked it enough that he
changed his name to Weegee the
Famous, even
stamping it on
the back of his
prints.
Weegee’s room
was filled with
stuff of all kinds.
There was no
place to sit other
than on Wee-
gee’s single bed,
so Bill stood. The room was
packed with prints and photo-
graphic paraphernalia. Weegee
was in and out of consciousness as
Bill attempted to interview him.
Then, during one of Weegee’s
more lucid moments, (which looks
more than slightly deranged,) Bill
caught him on camera under the
glaring light of the single bare
bulb above the bed. The look in
Weegee’s eye says it all.
Of that moment, Bill says, “Wee-
gee was obviously tiring so I left
him, a sad sick old man, alone with
his life’s work. I knew I would
never see him, or his like, again.”

Where was “Fellig’s seedy hotel room?”
Wilma’s beautiful brownstone, neither seedy nor a hotel, at 451 West 47th St. perhaps…

Three months before his death…

Time Out, London, April 19, 2006
The Times, April 12, 2006

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/WeeGee

from the wookieepedia:

“WeeGee, nicknamed Weeg, was the Katarns’ multi-purpose droid, hand-built by Morgan Katarn.
The shape of an inverted “U”, WeeGee was equipped with an extremely powerful, four-jointed heavy-duty arm that ended with a C-shaped grasping appendage. It was three times stronger than the left arm, which had a Human-shaped hand designed for using tools. WeeGee hovered two meters off the ground using a repulsorlift from an Imperial speeder bike and steering jets from a probe droid. On top of the drive assembly was a vertical sensor stack that contained WeeGee’s oval-shaped optical lens. WeeGee communicated via beeps and whisles like a standard Astromech-unit and wore a tool belt around his “waist”.
WeeGee’s name could be a reference to Arthur “Weegee” Fellig, a famous photojournalist, or Luigi from Nintendo…”

Wouldn’t you wanna see Weegee’s World on Wood?
Amazing portraits…

http://www.marygibney.com/PaintingsWeegee.htm

Weegee Portfolio: Oct. 25 – Dec. 20, 2008

At the Side Gallery, at the great Amber film and photography collective in Newcastle upon Tyne…

http://www.amber-online.com/sections/side-gallery/pages/future-exhibitions

And an amazing interview with the great Sid Kaplan:
http://www.amber-online.com/sections/side-gallery/pages/weegee-portfolio-an-interview

Keep up the great work Amber!!!

Surprisingly no Weegee photos at Christies or Sotheby’s this season, and only two at Phillips…
From ebay web site:

WEEGEE (ARTHUR FELLIG), 1899-1968
Untitled (distortion), 1950s
Gelatin silver print. 7 ⅝ x 9 ½ in. (19.4 x 24.1 cm). Photo-Representatives’ and ‘Credit Photo by Weegee’ stamps on the verso.

[title of original or non-distorted image: Daisy Lewis, Entertainer, Jan 16, 1944]

WEEGEE (ARTHUR FELLIG), 1899-1968
Untitled (distortion), n.d.
Gelatin silver print. 9 ⅛ x 7 ⅛ in. (23.2 x 18.1 cm). Annotated ‘My husband doesn’t understand me’ in ink on the verso.

The title is: “My husband doesn’t understand me.” Weegee wrote it on the back…

And the bidding starts at a mere $1,300.

Two photos from the Internet and one from real life…

http://www.photosapiens.com/Weegee-The-Famous.html

“For the first time in Europe, a selection of 272 images from this series is unique in the world is presented at the Pavillon popular Montpellier between June 25 and September 14, 2008. Composed solely of original prints of exceptional quality, made on different formats far removed from the usual press prints, the exhibition presents the work of Weegee between 1939 and 1960.”

“Cette collection dans la collection avait été rassemblée par un ami intime du couple Auer et du photographe Weegee, Louis Stettner, auteur d’une des premières monographies complète (1977) consacrée à l’immense photographe new-yorkais. Pour la première fois en Europe, un choix de 272 images issues de cette série unique au monde est présenté au Pavillon Populaire de Montpellier entre le 15 juin et le 14 septembre 2008.

Composée uniquement de tirages originaux d’une qualité exceptionnelle, réalisés sur différents formats très éloignés des habituels tirages de presse, l’exposition présente le travail de Weegee entre 1939 et 1960. Découpée en 13 sections thématiques, l’exposition emmène les spectateurs dans les nombreux univers explorés pendant près de 30 ans par l’objectif de Weegee. Du cirque, en passant par Harlem, le strip-tease, les incendies, la police, les grands thèmes de l’univers weegien sont à l’honneur. L’exposition se termine par une face méconnue de son oeuvre, les anamorphoses, « les photos caricatures » réalisées les dix dernières années de sa vie.”

Informations pratiques :
Weegee The Famous
Photographies de Weegee
Du 15 juin au 14 septembre 2008
Le Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier (34)
Entrée libre

Looks like there’s a nice little publication, as well…

The sun never sets on a Weegee exhibition…

Palazzo della Ragione
Piazza dei Mercanti 1
Milano

June 21, 2008 – Oct. , 2008

http://www.ticket.it/weegee/index.htm

“Orario
lunedì 14.30-19.30
martedì, mercoledì, venerdì, sabato e domenica 9.30-19.30
giovedì 9.30-22.30

La mostra Unknown Weegee: cronache americane – organizzata dall’Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Milano, Palazzo Reale, 24 ORE Motta Cultura e dall’ I. C. of P. di New York – presenta, a Palazzo della Ragione, un centinaio di opere del fotoreporter americano provenienti dall’ICP.

I soggetti preferiti da Weegee (all’anagrafe Arthur Felling) sono la città di New York e i suoi abitanti: con il suo obiettivo affronta le tensioni razziali, i problemi economici, i razionamenti bellici, e l’invasione glamour di Hollywood, e ci porta negli anni Trenta, in una città che cerca di risollevarsi dalla Depressione, sino all’ansioso spaccato della società americana dopo la seconda Guerra Mondiale.”