Universal Photo Almanac, 1940
In 1940 what what would a freelance photographer do with her or his photographs? These are some of the newspapers and syndicates that might purchase, distribute, or print photographs…
Popular Photography, May 1940
Fotoshop, 18 East 42nd St.
PM Daily, 1948
By 1948 there were more options (than the New York Institute of Photography) in pursuing a photographic education…
CG, April 11, 2011
(entirely irrelevant…)
Popular Photography, May 1940
If it’s 1940 and you “would like to be an expert photographer… and are ambitious to become a successful photographer” the New York Institute of Photography might the place…
Popular Photography, May 1940
Popular Photography, May 1940
Perhaps coincidentally wee photographed this yesterday, thinking about Miroslav Tichy (1926-2011), and today we learned of his passing… Of course both invented and/or created lenses and camera apparatuses, and shared a fondness for photographing “gals”… perhaps only slightly irrelevant…
Popular Photography, May 1940, pp. 44-45
Freelance cameraman Arthur Fellig’s a Prize Winner! (Perhaps not surprisingly, Fellig’s the only freelancer, and May 1940 is before he was widely known as Weegee…)
“Balcony Seats at a Murder” is included in the 5th Annual Exhibition of the Press Photographers’ Association of New York and Editor and Publisher News Photo Contest…
(You won’t see this one on too many bibliographies…)
Is that the Alan Fisher? A future colleague at PM? And the William Klein? And the Joseph Conrad?
A pre-PM free-lancing Fellig was understandably proud of winning the Editor and Publisher Prize… In February 1941, the beginning of his most productive year as a photographer, the award was still on his wall…
Weegee, [self-portrait], 1941
Popular Photography, May 1940
(say it ain’t so…)
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