First Aid
fails to revive Paul Ryan, killed by a gas explosion in his apartment at 865 First Ave. Police say it was apparently suicide. The Christmas night blast shook the 17-story building and injured two house employees.
December 26, 1940
(06/12/1899 – 12/26/1968)
Police Solve MysteryOf Ticking SuitcaseBut Virtually Ruin ContentsBy Soaking It in OilAn attendant at the Pennsylvania Station parcel-checking room wasn’t taking any chances when he picked up a suitcase and heard a ticking noise inside it. He called police.Bomb squad detectives took the suitcase to a nearby parking lot, soaked it in oil and opened it. They found an alarm clock, the hands indicating 5:28; three pairs of women’s shoes, a raincoat, a meat chopper, two flatirons, two brushes and woman’s undies.The suitcase was returned to the checkroom, the contents a bit the worse for the oil.(PM Daily, Monday, December 22, 1941)
Boy Meets Girl – and that’s no posed meeting as he came home last night on Christmas furlough… overcome with joy.
http://www.moca.org/audio/blog/?p=2495
Weegee’s Naked Hollywood @ MOCA
Filed under “Exhibitions” in our little electronic filing cabinet AND a blog post about a blog post about a blog post…
NY Times Lens Blog post about Weegee’s Naked Hollywood Exhibition:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/weegees-other-naked-city/
Brief excerpt:
Weegee’s Other Naked City
By David Dunlap
December 16, 2011…Weegee may thus have some relevant [and prurient] lessons to offer artists, photographers and [prurient] museum-goers today.”
They are:
• Look all around, notice everything [pruriently]. “Often, this can be achieved by actually walking all around the subject, whatever it is, looking at it from every possible [prurient] perspective,” Weegee said.
• Think serially [pruriently]. “Think about a particular subject, theme or action, or even a piece of architecture that you might be [pruriently] interested in,” Weegee suggested. “Whenever you see another example, [pruriently] shoot it.”
• Photography is a [prurient] distortion. “I had to have a lens out of this [prurient] world to do full justice to the strange sights and [prurient] people which is Hollywood,” Weegee wrote.
Continuing the [prurient] tradition of advice, tips and tricks from Weegee and filling our little [prurient] electronic filing cabinet with [prurient] blog posts about a [prurient] blog post about a [prurient] blog post…
Screen shot of auction <a href="https://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/36/lot/11669/
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“A group of black and white negatives and contact sheets of Weegee (Arthur Fellig) taken by Joseph Jasgur, 1949–1950. Images include Weegee at home, at the 1949 Academy Awards, with females, and at various locations in Hollywood. Copyrights to the negatives will be transferred to the winning bidder. Negatives, 5 by 4 inches
Notes on copyrights and print dates:
The winning bidder of each lot containing copyrights will receive a document from The Estate of Joseph Jasgur and the bankruptcy trustee assigning the winning bidder all copyright interests to the image or images included in the specified lot. While the seller confirms that this property is sold with copyright, Julien’s can accept no liability in relation to any matters arising as a result of any imperfection in copyright given. Print dates for photographs vary and are in many cases unclear.”
All images and text are screen shots from the Swann Galleries Website
This little post should be filed in our little electronic filing cabinet under Auctions…
($499.99)
From the auction listing:
Weegee Original Photograph 1940’s
“FROM WEEGEE PRIVATE PHOTOS”
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 5×4 in.Here’s your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it”s age and rarity
Another fraudulent Weegee photograph… this time the title (significantly and appropriately) changed… “WEEGEE HIMSELF” disappeared…
