“It measure 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 with an 1 1/4 inch border on the right side.,A: The back is blank. I have owned it for 40 years. The mans shoulder on the right shows a slight dent that is only seen in side light./ The left also shows a small dent that is only seen in the side light. on…”
Sold for: $650.00
Apr 28, 2011
“1945 Grieving Mother Watches Daughter Burn Vintage Photo”
“… an original 7 x 9 Vintage Photo of Grieving Mother Watches Daughter Burn. Caption on back reads: “I cried when I took this picture,” says Weegee. Mother and Daughter weep and look up hopelessly as another daughter and her young baby are burning to death in the top floor of a tenement. The stairway collapsed before firemen could save them. Photo is Dated 7/27/45.”
Sold for: $324.99
May 05, 2011
[Acme still printing Weegee photos in 1945… probably printed for the publication of Naked City…]
“1959 Weegee Arthur Fellig’s Opening Night at the Opera”
Sold for: $718.88
Jun 19, 2011
[ed.s note: back might be more interesting than front]
(to be continued!)
“Naked City – Weegee – Arthur Fellig – Signed 1945”
Sold for: $239.45
06/2011
“If 100 Centre St., where Mr. Strauss-Kahn was denied bail and ordered sent to Rikers Island, feels like stepping back into a grimy ’30s Weegee photograph, then the Brooklyn courthouse is its psychological opposite: a sparkling monument to justice, only a few years old, with polished marble surfaces and tasteful fixtures.” Wall Street Journal, Ralph/Gardner, June 2011.
“Grimy”?
;-)
5 Centre Market Place… 06/25/2011
Weegee photos, made on the set of “Dr Strangelove,” are included in the big Stanley Kubrick exhibition at La Cinématheque Francaise
La Cinématheque Francaise, Paris, France, March 23 – July 31, 2011
http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/expositions-cinema/kubrick-exhibition/stanley-kubrick-expositi.html
PM Daily, June 16, 1943, pp. 14-15
40 Saved from Blazing Street Car After Bowery Collision…
…from the Internet auction grave.
On March 27th, 2011, this photo sold for $460.00.
Wee wrote about it here
On June 12th, 2011, the same photo sold for $138.27.
(Unfortunately some of the writing on the back was erased…)
Interestingly, this image is only a small portion, an 8th perhaps, of the entire 4×5 negative…
