Archive

Uncategorized

Once upon a time, on a website called (something like) corbis.com, one could find scores of Weegee photos…
Now corbis.com redirects to http://www.gettyimages.com/?corbis. And one is confronted with a message:

“Corbis Images and Corbis Motion closed their doors on May 2, 2016. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We are moving the best Corbis imagery and video content to Getty Images…”

Some of these Weegee images are still available/visible, but many of the images, perhaps from ACME, are either not available or hard to find…
Below, presumably scanned from the original negatives, are eight photos made on Coney Island:

u566420aacme

u566420acme

u566420bacme

u566420cacme

u566420dacme

u566420eacme

u566420facme

u566420gacme
Weegee, [Coney Island], 1940

weegee_ebay_neg2_bw

weegee_ebay_neg2e_bw

“OLSEN AND JOHNSON WINTER GARDEN BY WEEGEE NYC Old Photo Negative 254A”

“You are bidding on a guaranteed authentic 4X5 original negative as shown- This negative is from the PM New York City Daily News between 1940 – 1948.”

All above words and images are copied from ebay.

Sold for $34.00

The seller will even sell you a print (8×10 – 24×36) of the negative, and for $35 send you a CD of the “Photoshopped” image “that you can use for your reproductions.”

“She came to photography relatively late, almost in her 30s, after a sheltered Boston upbringing that became what can only be described as a Zelig adulthood: a college year in Paris spent in the same hotel as Susan Sontag; a stint waitressing at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, where she was propositioned by the photographer Weegee (“I had no idea who he was!” she says); a job as a secretary for Grove Press in New York during the heyday of its obscenity battles and its ascendancy as a haven for Beat poets, who seemed to gravitate toward Ms. Dorfman like a mother soul…”
NY Times, January 6, 2016

IMG_3747_bw

IMG_3745_bw

IMG_3749_bw
5 Centre Market Place, (01/03/2016)

According to our phone we walked over twenty miles during our new year perambulations around the Naked City. While visiting several museums we were drawn to a number of old crime scenes and significant locations…

IMG_3470_bw

IMG_3469_bw

IMG_3464_bw
451 West 47th St. (01/02/2016)