“…wrote a piece about beauteous legs across the Hudson. Delighted, the Jersey City Journal and Loew’s Journal Sq. Theater joined hands for a Legs Beautiful Contest on the great stage. Some 140 entrants, 16-60, were lined up in squads of 15 and judged from knees down, as above. No. 3 is a ringer, for comic relief. He’s an usher.
Photos by Ray Platnick, PM Staff”
PM, March 2, 1941
PM, August 27, 1941
For sale:
Photo of Louella Parsons
Inscribed: “To Jimmy / Weegee.”
“With a two page typed letter (November 31 [sic] 1950), signed, corrected and with a long postscript in the photographer’s hand. Weegee writes Los Angeles Herald-Examiner columnist Jimmy Starr regarding his promotional tour for his photographs and a 16 mm film…”
“…I photographed places that have never been photographed before…inside JAILS…BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE STRIP TEASERS…I will devote my time to my new book ‘ONLY HUMAN’ which will be published next summer…It will only make my former book ‘The Naked City’…look like a fairy story for little kiddies.”
“He notes that he is enclosing the above photo and two others…”
($7,500)
The above quotes from Peter L. Stern & Company’s website
More info here.
We spotted this photo on the website of Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd.
“8 x 10 inch silver gelatin photograph, with ferrotype finish… $10,000.”
All images and above words from the booksellers website.
For more info visit the booksellers website.
(Printing is a little unusual… In our electronic filing cabinet, file this post under unique old fotos for sale and crime…)
“I’ve Got a Secret” – April 30, 1958
“…The famous New York photographer Weegee took this lens and put it on his own personal camera and made some very unusual pictures, which I would like to show you now. You must guess who they are.”
Weegee, 4×5 negatives (screen shots from auction website)
Sold. Sold. Sold.
Whitney Museum, 03/27/2016
Edward Jerry and Bert Brandt 1915/6 – 1975, Arthur [H.] Fellig, 1947
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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