PM Daily, July 28, 1940
They’d Sooner Be at the Beach, But Heat or No Heat, Jobs Are Scarce
Weegee, the wag, finished up the day by taking his own picture in the darkroom. Note camera release in his hand…
Two pages full of heroic, hot, workers, and in the corner… Weegee showering in the darkroom…
November 1946…
Madison Square Garden moves north…
September 5, 2011
Two Weegee photos at MoMA, with context, September 3, 2011
Bizarre… the movie theater distortion photo (ca. 1955) was a “recent acquisition”… a Weegee (Governor Dewey and photographers) photo next to anonymous Signal Corps photos, Dmitri Baltermants, anonymous New York Times photos, and adjacent to an entire wall full of vernacular photos made by an “Unknown Photographer,” (another recent acquisition)… Weegee as modernist; Weegee as photojournalist… thought I was in another museum… for a moment or two…
to be continued…
Popular Photography, May 1940
Weegee’s People, “Greenwich Village Poets, who like to eat, display their poems for sale at an open air poetry exhibit… but there were few buyers…”
Raven Poetry Club displaying and selling their poems on the fence outside of Judson Memorial Church (ca. 1946). Where is the (mad bohemian) Maxwell Bodenheim? Looks like a Joe Gould poem in the middle…
In front of Judson Church, (no poets present… present company excluded), August 31, 2011
(Title of this post from So, by one of our many patron saints ;-) Joe Gould)
The Government And The Banks
Are Trying To Scare You.
RESIST.
Earn while you learn… American School of Photography…
