(from unknown magazine on Google books… Popular Mechanics maybe)
Every photographer is entitled to one pet peeve. Mine is baby pictures. They all look alike – stiff and mechanical like puppets on a string…
Weegee’s Shortcuts… #2
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French Features, 1133 Broadway (1133 Broadway???), 1955
Not Weegee… but not bad… Recent Auctions: Police officers look over the dead body of Frank the Pollock at Delancy and Willet Streets in NYC
Unidentified photographer, October 26, 1934, Police officers look over the dead body of Frank the Pollock at Delancy and Willet Streets in NYC
Sold for: $68.25
Not Weegee… but not bad… Recent Auctions: White House Coffee Pot, 1205 Third Avenue, NYC
Unidentified Photographer, May 13, 1933, Police man Cecil Southern shot an armed robber at the rear of the White House Coffee Pot 1205 Third Avenue in New York City
Sold for: $101.75
Is the Photographer Better Than Her Models?
Yup…
Night and Day, 1955
Weegee tries his hand at the flickers…
“The camera that he uses has two No. 2 photofloods attached to outriggers on either side (see cut above). He borrowed it from a friend. It’s a 16mm Bolex with a three-lens mount – a one inch f.4 a half-inch f2.8, and a three-inch f2.5”
64 years ago today…"The Outlaw"
Critical and Amusements (Continued), Sept. 7, 1947
Jane Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011) and The Outlaw will finally reach the local screen on Thursday, when the much-publicized Howard Hughes film has its New York premiere at the Broadway Theater. The Outlaw, which comes to town with more than 5,000 record-breaking engagements behind it, will be shown here on a 24-hour, round-the-clock schedule for an indefinite run.
Jane Russell as she appeared in “French Line.”
In her day, glamor girl Jane Russell has caused her own sensations. Remember “The Outlaw”?
More Jane Russell… 1947
More camera magic… Graphex shutters…
Camera Magic…
Images from the Internet…
(Inexplicably you won’t find this on very many filmographies…)
Happy 99th Birthday John Cage…
Nuts and bolts make music for John Cage
… Cage is 33, has freckles, and lives and works six flights up, on the top floor of an East Side tenement house that commands a view of the East River Drive on one side and Grand Street on the other. He has been writing ultra-modern music for 10 years, but it is only in the last year or two that he has begun to receive widespread recognition.
Cage’s major contribution to musical composition, he told us, has been to eliminate harmony. When he finally decided six years or so ago, that that was what he wanted to do, he was confronted with the problem of finding non-harmonic instruments…
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