PM, October 15, 1940, Vol. 1, No. 88 (Photos by the great Gene Badger!)
Q. “Who must register for the draft tomorrow?”
A. “Every male who has passed his 21st birthday and has not yet reached his 36th birthday…”
(W. would have been approximately 39-40.)
(Charlie Chaplin…)
Weegee
SEATED NUDE WITH FISHNET VEIL
‘451 West 47th Street’ and circular ‘Credit photo by the famous Weegee’ credit/studio stamps on the reverse
framed
1940s
printed later
13 by 10 3/4 in.
(Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, 26 April 1990, Sale 6004, Lot 312)
Sold for $4,375
Sotheby’s
October 3, 2016
The above words and image are copied from sothebys.com…
Weegee
Various genre scenes, 1940s
5 gelatin silver prints,
printed 1960s
Stamps:
4 stamped photographer’s ‘451 West 47th Street’ credit
3 stamped ‘Weegee The Famous’ credit
3 stamped ‘Weegee from Photo-Representatives’ credit in black ink (verso)
each image approx.: 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.
each sheet: 14 x 11 in.
Sold for: $13,750
Christies, October 5, 2016
All of the above words and the image are copied from christies.com website…
Once upon a time, on a website called (something like) corbis.com, one could find scores of Weegee photos…
Now corbis.com redirects to http://www.gettyimages.com/?corbis. And one is confronted with a message:
“Corbis Images and Corbis Motion closed their doors on May 2, 2016. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We are moving the best Corbis imagery and video content to Getty Images…”
Some of these Weegee images are still available/visible, but many of the images, perhaps from ACME, are either not available or hard to find…
Below, presumably scanned from the original negatives, are six photos made at Sammy’s:
Once upon a time, on a website called (something like) corbis.com, one could find scores of Weegee photos…
Now corbis.com redirects to http://www.gettyimages.com/?corbis. And one is confronted with a message:
“Corbis Images and Corbis Motion closed their doors on May 2, 2016. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We are moving the best Corbis imagery and video content to Getty Images…”
Some of these Weegee images are still available/visible, but many of the images, perhaps from ACME, are either not available or hard to find…
Below, presumably scanned from the original negatives, are ten photos made at Coney Island:
PM, October 11, 1940, p20 (unidentified photographers and author)
“Iraq’s Oil Wells Are the Near East’s Most Coveted Prize
Iraq’s rich oil fields are a prize coveted by every European power and would be the most important objective of an Axis offensive into the Near East…”
76 years ago today… some things don’t change…
Once upon a time, on a website called (something like) corbis.com, one could find scores of Weegee photos…
Now corbis.com redirects to http://www.gettyimages.com/?corbis. And one is confronted with a message:
“Corbis Images and Corbis Motion closed their doors on May 2, 2016. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We are moving the best Corbis imagery and video content to Getty Images…”
Some of these Weegee images are still available/visible, but many of the images, perhaps from ACME, are either not available or hard to find…
Below, presumably scanned from the original negatives, are eight photos made on Coney Island:
Weegee, [Coney Island], 1940
“NEW TECHNIQUE OF MULTIPLE CIRCULATING EXHIBITIONS ON DISPLAY
AT MUSEUM OF MODERN ART”
“To satisfy, at least in part, the craving for accurate and understandable information both visual and verbal about various phases of art, the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, is preparing in multiple form a series of small, compact but very complete exhibitions to be sold or circulated throughout the country
and even abroad. Two of these exhibitions, What is Modern Painting? and Creative Photography, will be shown in the Museum’s Auditorium galleries Wednesday, March 7, for a period of three weeks, closing Sunday, March 25.”
“CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
In terms understandable to the amateur, this 12-panel exhibition demonstrates the tremendous possibilities of the camera as a medium of Creative expression. Mounted on colored panels, more than two dozen major photographs by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Helen Levitt, Berenice Abbott,
Weegee,
Henri Cartier-Bresson and other outstanding American and European photographers, are reproduced by an extraordinarily accurate process. A group of smaller photographs made particularly for the exhibition by Andreas Feininger, noted photographer who acted as adviser, illustrates certain technical points. The panels also include text and explanatory diagrams under the following headings:
The photographer is an artist
He [and she] works with a mechanical tool
His [and her] medium is a scale of values
He [and she] selects the subject
He [and she] composes with his camera
He [and she] selects the moment
The camera records infinite detail
The camera creates its own perspective
The camera extends or compresses space
The camera stops or prolongs motion
The camera translates color into black-and-white.
This exhibition sells for $25.00. No rental copies are available.”
Creative Photography
March 6–25, 1945
At MoMA, in NYC.
Information from moma.org.
Three in a row: 1943, 1944 and 1945, at MoMA…
Art in Progress: 15th Anniversary Exhibitions: Photography
May 24–September 17, 1944
Weegee at MoMA, in NYC.
“FELLIG, Arthur (Weegee). American, born Austria 1900.
Brooklyn School Children See Gambler Murdered in Street. (225.42)
Oct. 8, 1941. Given anonymously.
*Tenement Fire, Brooklyn. Dec.14,1939. ILL. p.158. (96.43)
My Man, N.Y.C. 1941. (95.43)
Woman Shot from Can[n]on, N.Y.C. 1943. (696.43)
Above 3 prints Purchase Fund.
Opening Night at the Opera, N.Y.C.1944. Given anonymously.
All info and images from moma.org
Two years in a row: 1943, 1944 at MoMA, in NYC…
(Unidentified photographer)
Image from moma.org
“Action Photography”
August 18-September 19, 1943
The Museum of Modern Art
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