Unidentified Photographer, PM Daily, ca. 1944

Jay Walking: One Quick Way to the Hospital…

April 6, 2012

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PM Daily, Photos by the great Ray Platnick, (34th St. and 7th Ave.), December 20, 1946

Jay Walking (and running): Still One Quick Way to the Hospital…

CG Daily, Photos by the not-great CG, (34th St. and 7th Ave.), April 6, 2012

Entirely Irrelevant… Jane Russell…

April 5, 2012

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Unidentified Photographer, Jane Russell, ca. 1943

After Weegee… After Sherrie…

April 5, 2012

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Whitney Museum, ca. 2012

Unexpected Weegee reference of the day…

April 5, 2012

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NY Times, Friday, March 30, 2012

X Marks the Third Eye…

April 1, 2012

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Weegee and Malcolm… and J. Edgar…

Phillips auction house, March 31, 2012…

[Great large print, unusually mounted, looked like the print was wrapped around the mount…]

From the Phillips website:

WEEGEE
J. Edgar Hoover, 1960
Gelatin silver print, flush-mounted.
25 1/8 x 19 3/4 in
ESTIMATE $8,000-12,000

Unsold.

1963: Weegee’s Bare… Ladies and Dr. Strangelove…

April 1, 2012

1963, My Bare Lady

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Weegee as judge in a nude beauty contest… in My Bare Lady (1963) directed by Arthur Knight. Filmed in the United Kingdom… My Bare Lady was probably filmed at around the same time that Dr. Strangelove was filmed (perhaps after)… It’s fun to imagine Weegee yo-yoing between the sets of Dr. Strangelove and My Bare Lady…

-Judge: “This is the first time I’ve ever judged a beauty contest.”
-Weegee: “Oh, don’t worry about it. Men are always judging women anyway. So, this should be right up your alley…”

My Bare Lady is available here. It might be the best $10 you’ve ever spent… no, the second best $10 you’ve ever spent, after Shangri-La (1961)… no, the third best $10 you’ve ever spent, after The Imp-Probable Mr. Weegee (1966)…