PM Daily, June 22, 1947 (Photo by Morris Gordon)
“Mrs. Irving Hafftel, 87 Taylor St., Brooklyn, was at the auction Friday at the Collyer Palace of Trash on upper Fifth Ave. and bought this piano – one of eight the Collyers had – for $45. Eleven other prospective buyers were present, but they rejected the other 15 items which were offered at auction. Entire contents of the house then were sold for $100 to Carlos Martin, a Third Ave. second hand dealer.
73 Years Ago Today… Detective Examines Board and Glass…
Unidentified Photographers, New York Daily News, June 21, 1940
New York Daily News, June 22, 1940
Weegee or Unidentified Photographer, Detective examines board and glass shattered in blast at 17 Battery Place, June 22, 1940
From a Midtown Manhattan Museum’s website:
Weegee, Investigator, (who looks like & is Weegee) at Manhattan Police Hdqs, looks over fragments of broken glass, & metal from scene of bombings, for clues, in 2 bombings at German Consulate Bldg, & Daily Worker, note piece of wood, from German Consulate Bldg bombing, June 1940
Except for the stripes on the tie going in the opposite direction, that’s a pretty close match… Fellig playing and/or posing as investigator/detective…
Happy Summer… “Beneath its comic surface…”
“Delightful shot of city children keeping cool during sumer heat is used as an end piece for the book. Everybody in the book is having fun in a frenzied, sprawling way. Beneath its comic surface, Weegee’s People is poignantly sad.”
Poignantly sad?!?! We disagree. Weegee’s People is full of incipient early post war optimism… poignantly comic…
(Hey, there’s an AF number on the upper left corner of this photo… it must have been made around 1943, or 1943-1945.)
Today, we call this photo: Summer, Upper West Side, 1943-44
66 Years Ago Today… June 20, 1947… Melody Lingers On…
PM Daily, June 20, 1947
Melody Lingers On
This organ and two others along with eight pianos will be sold at auction this morning at the Collyer home, 2079 [2078] Fifth Avenue. Workmen were busy yesterday clearing paths through the junk-filled rooms so curiosity buyers might examine the last of the trash the dead hermits held so dear.
Google Street View of 2078 Fifth Ave.
66 Years Ago Today… June 20, 1947… Armstrong Gives ‘New Orleans’ a Needed Lift…
PM Daily, June 20, 1947
Review of “New Orleans” by Cecelia Ager…
“… The music of Louis Armstrong and his associates is heard less and less and the plot more and more. Nevertheless, it has been heard, and the rare geniality of his personality encountered. That’s the good and important thing about “New Orleans,” the thing that makes it worth your while.”
66 Years Ago Today… “New Orleans”
PM Daily, June 18, 1947
“There’s Gonna Be Hot Music… until 5 AM”
73 Years Ago Today… Happy Birthday To The Newspaper PM…
Exhibitions… When in Vancouver… “It was also by luck…”
Strangelove’s Weegee, June 14 – July 26, 2013
“Rare set of Weegee photographs on view at Presentation House.”
Interview with the curator here…
“He was working with a Speed Graphic and so you were limited in the number of photographs you could take. He was working with flash because that had been insisted upon by Kubrick. On the set every time he took a photograph you had a little mini atomic explosion going off. I think that’s one of the reasons he got invited on the set because Kubrick wanted him to take flash photographs. He didn’t have to by that time because the technology had changed. He was using flash with a Speed Graphic 4 by 5 camera and you couldn’t take a lot of photographs with that because you had to change the plate and put in another bulb.”
(Perhaps Weegee was really using a 2 1/4 Rolliflex camera. Perhaps in 1963 Weegee was not using a 4 x 5 Speed Graphic; the negatives are 120mm…)
66 Years Ago Today… “New Orleans”
PM Daily, June 17, 1947
“When ’38 Blocks of Vice and Corruption’ Made History!”
“TAKEN BY WEEGEE WITH HIS CAMERA PRESENT” – Enthusiastically Covering Cheesecake…
In an intriguing and misleading (and perhaps incorrect) recent eBay auction one 8″ x 10″ photo, from the 1940s, and nine 4″ x 5″ photos, from the 1950s, were sold recently… All ten photos sold for $199.99.
One could argue that they represent Weegee’s work during World War II, enthusiastically covering the home front, (uniformly good and sometimes great), and his post war work, enthusiastically covering women in bikinis, enthusiastically covering cheesecake, (uniformly great and sometimes good;-)… One could also argue that nine of the ten photos were not made by Weegee…
Photo was probably made in 1943-1944. (One stamp is from 1943-44, the other ca. 1966-68.)
Unusual: lighting, composition, content, etc.
These photos were not made by Weegee. They were made around 1953. (Assistant? Nope.)
Images above and words below from eBay:
“”ARTHUR FELLIG “WEEGEE” 10 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION”
“EXTREMELY RARE PHOTO SESSION BY WEEGEE AND WEEGEE STAMPS ON ONE”
THIS RARE COLLECTION CONSISTS OF (9) ORIGINAL SILVER GELATINS BY WEEGEE HIMSELF. THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF WEEGEE AND MODEL WAS TAKEN BY HIS ASSISTANT. ALL OTHERS WERE TAKEN BY WEEGEE WITH HIS CAMERA PRESENT. “PHOTOGRAPH OF WEEGEE WITH CIGAR IN HIS MOUTH HOLDING HIS CAMERA.”
THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN IN 1940, NEW YORK, OF A PIN UP MODEL.
ALL PHOTOGRAPHS ARE 4″ X 5″, ALL SILVER GELATIN. “WILL PASS PSA” AS THEY ARE ALL THE ORIGINALS.
ALL ORIGINALS HAVE LIGHT WEAR.
2) ARTHUR FELLIG “WEEGEE” STAMPED SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH
SIZE: 10″ X 8″
VERSO: WEEGEE STAMPS AND WRITTEN NOTATIONS, 1948 NEW YORK
CONDITION: CREASE ON END LEFT CORNER, STAIN ON VERSO, PHOTOGRAPH NEEDS TO BE LAID FLAT, OLD PHOTOGRAPH.”
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