“Our Police Headquarters photographer, Weegee, got his name in all the camera magazines last month when the Photo League put on a show of his news pictures. Yesterday, prompted by gallery-visitor response to the first, the league opened a second edition of the exhibit in its clubroom at 31 E. 21st St. The new show, a complete change of pictures from the first…… Above, in a photo by one of the League members, Weegee puts finishing touches to the display. Typical comments in the visitors’ book: “Great pictures”… “Terrific”… “Could do better with a Brownie”… “Have gone away for the weekend to recuperate.””

“And there is the all-important fact that Weegee, unlike the majority of photographers I have met, is a rich personality. You can’t squeeze blood from a stone; nor can an editor squeeze good pictures out of a stony photographer. Weegee moves in a world of violence, brutality, bloodshed and horror, but the pictures he brings up out of it do not depend on the drama of the event. They are good because Weegee adds a little of himself, and a little of Weegee is really something.”

This is the first in a series of hourly Weegee birthday posts (primarily published photos of W.)…
(A very late night; very quick and easy plan.)
No context, no information, no nothing…

To be continued…

Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt

(To be continued…)