PM, May 26, 1943
68 Years Ago Today… “He photographed the real war”
PM, May 26, 1946
“Memorial Day Issue”
71 Years Ago Today… “Gene Badger, former PM photographer…”
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PM, May 25, 1943
“Eskimos Are Patriotic Folk…”
(Informative article about a great photographer, and colleague of Weegee, GB…)
71 Years Ago Today… “Cookies that stay fresh…”
PM, May 24, 1943
“COOKIES: That Stay Fresh, Don’t Crumble Easily…”
By Sally Harris
Eating like it’s 1943.
“Weegee always wanted everyone to take their cloths off…”
(Perhaps not surprising for the author of Naked City, Naked Hollywood, and “Naked Everything,” etc….)
The above photo and letter is from a presumably great bookstore, Between the Covers, and is available here (for $2,800): http://www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/item/133703/
The Weegee bits:
“Weegee always wanted everyone to take their cloths off, men & women alike… Late one night, after the San Remo Cage [Cage?] closed, Weegee accompanied me home, and asked to take a nude photo. I had no inhibitions, only the demand that we not extend the nudity into sexual play – and he agreed. Weegee was very particular about the placement of the lamp… Weegee wanted the light to shine at just a certain angle behind me. And though I had often known him to be amorous, at this session his interest was patiently and entirely on the quality of the light & the pose – rare for a photographer known for his speed & spontaneity.” By Judith Malina
Related:
Getty Images screenshot: Judith Malina and Paul Goodman at San Remo, 189 Bleecker St., ca. 1954.
Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac’s City, By BillMorgan
(Of course Weegee hadn’t captured “dastardly crimes” in over ten years…)
Birth of the Cool… (Street photographer? The Village was published posthumously, was Weegee working on it in 1954?)
Weegee, The Village, book published in 1989, photo made in 1954…
“…then up to Rienzi’s for a quick look at the bulletin board, where you see that you can get a model to pose in the nude for $2 an hour, in case you want to take up art… People advertise for room-mates, soul-mates, helicopter pilots (probably for the girls who found a cold water flat on the sixth floor). Then you can stop in, say, at the San Remo bar – see what’s going on in there.” Weegee, The Village, 1989.
Bobby, Dolly, Lenny, Lennon and Zero… (Or, Weegee in the Window)
“His keen eye did fly”
Le Monde.fr
April 11, 2014
(Great Google translation)
“The eye scoundrel Weegee”
“It is always a pleasure to find Weegee, the night owl who photographed crimes and settling of accounts, suicides and bastons in New York of the 1930s and 1940s. His keen eye did fly, as its black humor : letters and signs in the city manage to drag in the image blink of an eye the macabre corpse that just to cool .
Gallery Blue sky in Lyon , favored in the collection of Michel and Michèle Auer, images that show Weegee, paparazzi and see , was also a portraitist – especially with an amazing series of photos prostitutes, gangsters or Mafia … taken in the paddy wagon.”
“Weegee the Famous. Black photography” on gallery Blue sky, 12, rue des Whimsical, Lyon 1. Tel. : 04-72-07-84-31. Until June 21
Screen shot from Le Monde.fr
“Weegee, the eye of crime”
(Screenshot from liberation.fr)
From Liberation.fr, April 11, 2014
Google translation:
American photographer is honored to Toulouse.
Weegee, born Arthur H. Fellig, is not a paparazzo, he values and sense of justice. This does not prevent strafe like hell and order crime scenes to his liking. Nobody arrives at the ankle and the history of photography, without him, would be sad to die. Sometimes reduced to a vampire attracted by blood, Weegee (1899-1968) immortalized the New York injustice, racial segregation (photo of a cinema cut in half), those who sleep on the floor and the rich parading as these men back, wearing high-hat, straight out of a painting by Caillebotte.Weegee was a surefire thing, a sudden flash of his signature to Zorro, which turns any moment into hallucination. His Chevrolet coupe, equipped with a radio plugged into the police frequencies, allowing it to be the first on the scene of various facts, photographs faster than his shadow and be the headlines. Nothing can resist him or the guys or Marilyn Monroe. It is a crazy and daring plays, on occasion, its role mortician paper with panache. In a hundred photographs, the Water Tower offers the best of the American Stanley Kubrick loved and who was set photographer for Dr. Strangelove.
Weegee Gallery Water Tower, 1 place Laganne, Toulouse (31). Until May 18 Rens. :
galeriechateaudeau.org
(video interview, conference audio, and educational kit).
(Screenshot from liberation.fr)
Weegee the Famous: “…show how, in a city of ten million people live in complete solitude. “
(Screenshot from lebleuduciel.net)
From lebleuduciel.net:
(Google translation:)
“WEEGEE the Famous
“The Black Photography”
in partnership with Quais du Polar Under the Polar Platform 2014 festival, the Blue Sky joins the event to present the famous Weegee styled and famous in his exhibition entitled “Black photograph.” For the first time on Lyon photographs of the “famous” photographer will be presented. His work, entirely Black and white, focus on the nightlife of the city of New York and lead us to a succession of sordid or tragic incidents. For the artist, his photographic approach is to “show how, in a city of ten million people live in complete solitude. ” The Ukrainian Usher Fellig emigrated with his parents to the United States at the age of 11 years, fleeing the rise of anti-Semitism. A click is when it takes a picture in the street: it will be a photographer. He worked several years at ACME Newspictures then becomes independent. He inherited his nickname Weegee is a reference to the spiritual game Ouija, which is to communicate with the spirits. Giving the impression of knowing in advance where and when interesting events would unfold, he had done in his car radio connected to the police frequencies. Penetrate New york unknown 20s, through the objective of Weegee, whose crackling flash could capture more of a scene of crime. Disasters, fires, regulations mafia account, prostitution and freaks of the night, jet-set debauched or pinch the subject of his work.”
(Screenshot from lebleuduciel.net)
(Screenshots from lebleuduciel.net)
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