The New York Times, December 27, 1968
Weegee at MoMA… in the The Thomas Walther Collection…
Great new website:
Weegee at MoMA, in the The Thomas Walther Collection…
“Frank Pape, Arrested for Homicide, November 10, 1944”
Surface
Great essay!
“In the Police Wagon, in the Press, and in The Museum of Modern Art
(A Note on Weegee’s Frank Pape, Arrested for Homicide, November 10, 1944)”
Jason E. Hill
PDF is here…
Screenshots from moma.org
Weegee Daily… November 24, 1941… Weegee Daily… November 24, 2012…
Weegee, PM, November 24, 1941, p. 13
Cop Kills Holdup Man: A few minutes after he had held up an Essex Street lunchroom on the Lower East Side and shot a patron, Vincent Mannuzza, 31, was lying dead at the feet of the cop who shot him. Patrolman Laurence Cramer, right, shot and killed Mannuzza, after a two-block chase and is shown handing the gunman’s revolver to Sgt. Eugene Morland. The $20 loot taken from the restaurant lies in Mannuzza’s hat at his side. An ambulance surgeon crouches over the dead man who was shot in he head and back. Mannuzza shot a customer, Adam Zayko, 50, when he refused to go into the back room with two other customers and the mangaer of the lunchroom.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012, – Approximate location
WD Photo by Ceegee
Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling, two similar, yet slightly different accounts:
The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, N.Y., Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 5
The Niagara Falls Gazette, Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 22
Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – Approximate location
WD Photo by Ceegee
Weegee Daily… November 24, 1940… Weegee Daily… November 24, 2012
Weegee, PM, November 24, 1940
2 Die in Wrecked Car
Dr. Albion O. Bernstein, 28, interne, and Miss. Helen Ayers, nurse at Beth Israel Hospital, were drowned early yesterday when his car plunged over the string piece and into the East River at Pier 60, East 21st St. Picture shows emergency squad men lifting Miss Ayers from the car. Photo by Weegee
Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…
0 Die in Wrecked Car…Picture shows the remnants of what was perhaps, Pier 60, East 21st St. and the East River… Photo by Ceegee
Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling:
“The Bernstein Award
This national award, endowed by the late Morris J. Bernstein in memory of his son, a physician who died in an accident while answering a hospital call in 1940, is given to a physician or scientist who has made a significant contribution in medicine, surgery, or disease prevention during the previous calendar year.
The award consists of a check for $2000.00 and a citation. Information on the MSSNY Continuing Medical Education Program can be obtained here…”
(from the Internet… Albion O. Bernstein memorial Volume, 1943)
Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…
Chasing The Critic… 71 Years Ago Today…
Approximate location of where the photo “The Critic” was made…
Approximate location of where the photo “The Critic” was made…
Approximate location…
A statue dedicated to the memory of the unidentified “disheveled” women, AKA the critic…
All photos made about 15-30 minutes and 71 years after and at the approximate location of where the photo “The Critic” was made…
Weegee @ Harvard Art Museums…
Screen shots from the (old) Harvard Art Museum’s website…
A slight variant of “Untitled (Harlem), 1939” was printed in PM, on October 18, 1943
A slight variant of “Untitled (circus in Madison Square Garden)” was published in PM…
Wonder why a few of photos that were made in the 1940s, (and have distinctive edges and corners) but “printed later” have this stamp: “CREDIT PHOTO BY WEEGEE THE FAMOUS [circumscribed].”
“Audience Reaction” is not really the title, it’s the subject… Mostly grayscale images?
Great “Weegee by Weegee” photo: “USED IN TIME NOV 2 1953 – pg. 74 [page notation in black ink]”
Great “Manuelda Hernandez…” photo. Great two Santa photo…
LIFE, December 27, 1954
(Although that looks like a typical Weegee “grim” crime photo… maybe it was set-up…)
That’s Lucky…
Weegee, PM, November 17, 1941
(Interestingly Weegee had another and perhaps equally unknown photo published in PM, on November 17, 1941… “Lucky Phil Falco leaped just before his car took this dive off the Willis Avenue Bridge. He swerved to avoid another car.
PM Photo by Weegee“)
Weegee Daily… Mongrel Pup… November 17, 1941…
PM, November 17, 1941
Mongrel Pup Almost Dies Saving 16 Families in Fire
“Jerry, mongrel collie, was overcome by smoke in a fish store at 210 E. 10th St., but not before he attracted the attention of a passerby.”
“When the ambulance arrived an intern gave the unconscious pup an injection and continued treatments until he regained his senses. Sixteen families made their escape from apartments above the store, due to Jerry’s warning.”
“John Lamanna, Jerry’s owner, tenderly carries him off wrapped in a blanket. The intern said the dog would recover.”
PM Photos by Weegee”
Weegee Daily, November 17, 2014
No Pups, No Fire, No Fish Store…
Sarcastically he writes: Weegee’s crime scene photos published in the TABLOID above are typically “grim” and bloody…
(To be continued…)
That’s Life…
Life, November 17, 1939
(Interestingly Weegee had another and almost unknown photo published in Life on November 17, 1939. This photo illustrated an article about the Chief Medical Examiner of NYC, and the article can be seen here…)
Weegee Daily… Balcony Seats At A Murder… November 17, 1939
New York Post, November 17, 1939
“Street Scene in New York
After the guns ceased barking and the gunmen fled, neighbors peered from the fire escape and almost every window last night for a glimpse of the body of Anthony Greco, slain in front of his own cafe at 10 Prince Street.
Associated Press Photo”
Ceegee, November 17, 2014
Balcony Seats At A Brunch… Balcony Seat While Shopping in Noho…
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New York Post, November 17, 1939
“Street Scene in New York
After the guns ceased barking and the gunmen fled, neighbors peered from the fire escape and almost every window last night for a glimpse of the body of Anthony Greco, slain in front of his own cafe at 10 Prince Street.
Associated Press Photo”
LIFE, November 27, 1939
Murder in New York
“After dusk on Nov. 16, Angelo Greco stood smoking outside his cafe in Manhattan’s Little Italy. Emerging from the darkness, a man drew a gun, fired four shots, fled into the night. Greco tumbled dead in his doorway. From windows above, heads popped out. Police cars screamed into the street. Close in their wake arrived Arthur Fellig, famed free-lance photographer (LIFE, April 12, 1937) who sleeps behind police headquarters, has a short-wave radio in his car. He listened briefly while neighborhood folk stolidly disclaimed knowledge of the murderer, then stepped back and photographed this dramatic street scene.”
Weegee, Naked City, pp. 78-79, 1945
“Balcony Seats At A Murder
This happened in Little Italy. Detectives tried to question the people in the neighborhood… but they were all deaf… dumb… and blind… not having seen or heard anything.”
Weegee, Naked City, p. 79
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“Street Scene in New York
After the guns ceased barking and the gunmen fled, neighbors peered from the fire escape and almost every window last night for a glimpse of the body of Anthony Greco, slain in front of his own cafe at 10 Prince Street.
Associated Press Photo”
New York Post, November 17, 1939
Murder in New York
“After dusk on Nov. 16, Angelo Greco stood smoking outside his cafe in Manhattan’s Little Italy. Emerging from the darkness, a man drew a gun, fired four shots, fled into the night. Greco tumbled dead in his doorway. From windows above, heads popped out. Police cars screamed into the street. Close in their wake arrived Arthur Fellig, famed free-lance photographer (LIFE, April 12, 1937) who sleeps behind police headquarters, has a short-wave radio in his car. He listened briefly while neighborhood folk stolidly disclaimed knowledge of the murderer, then stepped back and photographed this dramatic street scene.”
LIFE, November 27, 1939
“Balcony Seats At A Murder
This happened in Little Italy. Detectives tried to question the people in the neighborhood… but they were all deaf… dumb… and blind… not having seen or heard anything.”
Weegee, Naked City, 1945, p. 79
“One of the best pictures I’ve made… I got up nine o’clock one night, and I says to myself, I’m going to take a nice little ride and work up an appetite. I arrive right in the heart of Little Italy, 10 Prince St…. This was a nice balmy hot summer’s night… Some of the kids are even reading the funny papers and the comics… To me this was drama, this was like a backdrop. I stepped all the way back around 100 feet, I used flash powder… Of course the title was “Balcony Seats at a Murder”… That picture won me a gold medal [see below]… I try to humanize the news story. Of course I ran into snags with the dopey editors…”
Famous Photographers Tell How… ca. 1955
(Weegee talking about how he made his amazing photo can be heard on the Weegee’s World website.)
“At 6:45 P.M., on November 16, 1939, A Lone Gunman Shot Angelo Greco in the doorway of his candy store at 10 Prince Street in Little Italy. Greco who had a long history of arrests, fell dead with four bullets to the head. The gunman dropped his weapon beside the victim and disappeared into the panicked sidewalk crowd… police dutifully recorded the interior of Greco’s poorly stocked store and the location of the body…”
Murder Is My Business, p. 72
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Weegee Dans Ls Collection Berinson, pp. 188-189
Murder Is My Business, pp. 72-75
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A few years ago we made this related post, that pointed out the Editor and Publisher News Photo Contest prize award on the wall above his bed, in his home:
Balcony Seats at a Prize… Freelancer Fellig’s a Winner!
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
Several years ago we made this related post:
Balcony Seats at a Blog…
Weegee, Naked City, 1945
Balcony Seats at a Murder…
10 Prince St. New York, N.Y. ca. 1939
10 Prince St. New York, N.Y. March 3, 2008
10 Prince St. New York, N.Y. Septemeber 17, 2011
10 Prince St. New York, N.Y. Septemeber 17, 2014
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Weegee, Naked City, pp. 78-79, 1945
“Balcony Seats At A Murder
This happened in Little Italy. Detectives tried to question the people in the neighborhood… but they were all deaf… dumb… and blind… not having seen or heard anything.”
Weegee, Naked City, pp. 78-79
Weegee (and Ceegee), Not the Naked City, pp. 78-79, 1945 – ca. 2010
Weegee (and Google Maps), Not the Naked City, pp. 78-79, 1945 – ca. 2010
(to be continued…)
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