Speaking of human cops…
Here is Detective Adam Flint using a typically unconventional method to solve a crime… with, more importantly a pair of Weegee photos (“On the Roof” and… a bandaged Frank Birskowsky on the Bowery?) tacked to the bulletin board in the squad room of the 65th Precinct on the TV series “Naked City.”
(“The Fingers of Henri Tourelle,” October 18, 1961)
“60 Injured In Western Electric Blast,” November 30, 1943, “Extra! Weegee” pages 44-45.
There are many reason to love the book “Extra! Weegee” (Hirmer, 2017) this is one of them:
Making connections between photos. The two photos above and “…And the human cop” were all made at the same place, after the same explosion…
Weegee, “Naked City,” 1945, pp. 68-69
“…and the human cop.”
PM caption:
“Proving the Cops are Human
A look of grave concern crosses the face of this policeman as he watches an injured woman being removed from the Western Electric plant at 395 Hudson St. following explosion that killed two early yesterday.”
(To be continued…)
Screenshots from Naked City, “The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos”, Season Three, 1962.
A pair of Weegee photos, “On The Roof,” August 1941 (and perhaps the Tresca murder, January, 1943), sandwiched between Paul Burke and Horace McMahon, have a starring role in several episodes of the Naked City T.V. series. They’re on the bulletin board in Lieutenant Parker’s office… (They also appear in the squad room, displayed in almost the exact same way…)
(“Weegee,” Howard Greenberg Gallery, March 21, 2017)
Excellent exhibition: “Weegee” at the Howard Greenberg Gallery, February 16 – April 1, 2017.
Bunch of classic images, some lesser-known images, and a few images we were not familiar with… One photo was made in Jersey City. A pair of photos of a woman and her periscope were made in Hollywood, ca. 1950… Almost entirely the prints were on the larger side, 11×14″-ish paper. (Prices were approx. $3,500-$12,000. Perhaps, the smaller the photo, the smaller the price. If an 11×14″ photo sold for $10,000, then that would be about $65/square inch. Or, a little less than $10,000/square foot.) Some prints were annotated, there was at least one Culver stamp, and several Acme Newspictures stamps…
“Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs of People,” by Henry Carroll, Laurence King Publishing, 2015. (From Irving Penn gift shop, in the Met Museum…)
Irving Penn, at the Met Museum exhibition.
Speaking of Irving Penn, it’s almost impossible to look at this photo and imagine, if it’s there or not, a Weegee influence…
(Or, maybe it’s just a coincidence that they photographed similar signs in the same place, on the Bowery… Or, maybe for different reasons, they were drawn to similar signs on the Bowery…)
(screen shots)
11″ x 14″
Sold for $349
12/27/2017
(Screenshot/grab)
From the eBay listing:
“…Hollywood Autograph Seekers, circa 1952. Vintage gelatin silver print, 4 x 5 inches. Printed circa 1952. No Weegee ink credit stamp…”
A contact print. Possibly from a contact sheet. Possibly one quarter of a contact sheet. Unknown printer.
Sold for $99.99. November 15, 2017.
First edition, first printing, hard cover, no dust jacket, sold for $190. October 2017
First edition, first printing, hard cover, with torn dust jacket, sold for $53. October 2017.
First edition, hard cover, no dust jacket, sold for $250. September 2017.
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