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Some of the lost kids... Summer, ca. 1940 and Summer ca. 2006

2013-01-01T01:13:00.000-05:00

Some of the lost kids in the Lost Children Center at Coney Island, Summer ca. 1940... and Midtown, Summer ca. 2006...

Sherry Sells!

2012-01-29T23:29:00.003-05:00

A few recent (01/29/2012) auction results:

Weegee, ca. 1953
Sold for: $1,080.00

Weegee, ca. 1953
Sold for: $689.99

Weegee, ca. 1953
Sold for: $889.99

Simply Add... the Third Avenue El...

2012-01-27T01:27:00.004-05:00

(screenshots from: Third Ave. El, 1950s)
About 2 minutes into this great little film about the Third Ave. El what might be the "Simply Add Boiling Water" building appears...

(Of course Joseph Cornell and Stan Brakhage's great little film about the Third Ave. El can be seen here...)

(thanks TM for the Third Ave. El link...)

Sherry Speaks!

2012-01-18T01:18:00.002-05:00

Unidentified Photographer, Sherry Britton, ca. 1940
(Audio is from 1957.)

Mabel Sidney Sings!

2012-01-17T01:17:00.000-05:00

Sherry Speaks!

2012-01-16T13:16:00.001-05:00

Sherry Britton, photo by Silver Studios, ca. 1957

(Not Weegee... but not bad...)
(Again, it seems easier to upload a "video" than an audio file, so we added an image...)

Mabel Sidney Sings!

2012-01-16T01:16:00.001-05:00

Mabel Sidney at Sammy's Bowery Follies!

Unidentified Photographer, ca. 1950
Mabel Sidney singing at Sammy's ca. 1950

(Not Weegee... but not bad...)

(Again, we wanted to upload just an audio file, but it seems easier to upload a "video" file...)

Sherry Speaks!

2012-01-13T13:13:00.012-05:00

Sherry Britton speaks about Burlesque...

(No Weegee photos... Not Weegee... but not bad...)

(We wanted to add an audio file, but it seems easier to add a "video" file than an audio file... so we added some images to the audio...)

(to be continued/improved...)

That's Life...

2012-01-13T13:13:00.002-05:00

...or death, at 701 Court St.!

Life, April 12, 1937

Not life, May 2011

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Know life now, 2012

Must See Weegee from WNYC...

2012-01-11T23:11:00.000-05:00

Screen grabs from the always great:

This Week: Must-See Arts in the City
WNYC's Arts Datebook: January 11 -17
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 12:00 AM

Weegee's People (or Person)

2012-01-09T21:12:00.003-05:00

A very large excerpt from an article in People magazine, Dec 11, 1989...

Candid Cameraman

By Louie Liotta

After 50 Years of Shooting for the Front Page, News Photog Louie Liotta Spills the Secrets Behind the Scoops

In his radio car, on assignment for the New York Post he shared his tricks of the trade—and his through-the-viewfinder way of looking at life—with senior writer Joyce Wadler.

My father was a photoengraver, which is how I got into this business. I went to work at his place—nowadays it's called United Press International—as an apprentice, when I was about 13.

The photographers were right next door to the photoengravers, and I was more attracted to their line of work. They were always talking about who's going to the ball game, going to the fights, a murder in Brooklyn. My father couldn't understand my admiration for them. The engravers had such a good union, you were making $75, $80 a week in 1935. The photographers didn't have a union, they made maybe $42.I didn't care. Money didn't mean nothing to me. I wanted to meet Mayor La Guardia, Lou Gehrig and the like. Also I liked making pictures.

At that time there was a free-lance photographer named Weegee. His real name was Arthur Fellig. He was the son of a rabbi, and he was a big, sloppy guy; cigar juice all over his chin, a three-day growth of beard. My father gave him the name Weegee, because he looked like the guy on the Ouija board, real grizzly-looking, semibald, with bugged-out eyes. But he was a damn good photographer.

Weegee was famous for his corpse pictures, you know, DO As. He was able to get pictures that other newspaper guys didn't because he had done a little favor for the police commissioner; he made his daughter's wedding pictures. So next to his press card, Weegee had a little note from the commissioner, and whatever assignment he'd go on, he'd make sure the chief in charge would see it. Weegee would set his tripod right alongside the forensic police department people who were making their pictures. When they uncovered the body so the police photographers could get their picture, Weegee would get his too. His, he would be able to sell to the papers. The other press photographers would have the body covered by the sheet.

With Weegee I didn't get paid, I went with him to learn. He did a lot of thinking before he made a picture. He made two or three shots, but he made sure every shot counted. In those days you didn't waste film. You used a Speed Graphic; they had plate holders for the film, two shots in each plate, and I'd load his holders. I'd set up his tripod, and then he'd use a flashpan or some large flashbulbs.

He made pictures at night mostly. That famous hot-weather picture with kids sleeping on the fire escape? He made that picture two, three days before. Like if he heard on the weather report it was gonna be real hot on a Thursday, Tuesday night he'd set up the picture. His mind was always workin'. He'd get four or five kids, stick them out on the fire escape, have their mother put them in little flimsy underwear or their shorts, with the mattress or pillow or blankets. Maybe slip the mother a few bucks.

Set it up? Sure he set it up. Just look at the pictures, see how well they were framed. And he got away with it for 40 years. Because they thought it was legit.

Like one of his most famous, the picture of the woman in front of the Metropolitan Opera wearing an old fur coat, standing next to the two ladies wearing expensive minks. I saw him get that old lady in the Bowery, I saw him get the clothing for her, I saw him put her in the right spot. When he saw those other ladies with the minks, that was his picture. Then he sold it to LIFE.

I thought that was very enlightening. That a guy could make a picture that could get through these so-called picture editors' hands without them ever knowing it. He made it look authentic. They were authentic, he just helped them a little bit....

In '42, during the war, I went in the Navy. Edward Steichen, he was America's most noted photographer in those days, was a lieutenant commander, heading up his own group of men for the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit. They were looking for photographers. I knew what Steichen liked—everything with backlighting. I went to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, it was getting to be 3, 3:30 in the afternoon in the winter, so you got that low light. I shot eight or 12 pictures; a sailor walking out of the yard, semisilhouette; the guard on duty with the light coming through the barbed-wire fence; the ships. As soon as this commander saw them, he said, "You're on our team."

I was all over: 15, 18 different ships, submarines, PT boats, battleships. I made an award-winning picture they hung in New York City's Museum of Modern Art, the Missouri firing salvos at night. Steichen came over to me and shook my hand at the museum. I was a 22-year-old kid. Jesus, my head was this big.

I came out of the Navy in 1946. I was 24, and I went to work for the New York Post up in the Bronx. I was making 90 bucks a week, that was big money in those days. I met my wife, Mildred Jimenez, up there on assignment. They were opening a new escalator from the subway to the el train, so I was looking around for a pretty girl—you don't want some old duck with a cane. We had four children, all brought up nice.

We were a local paper, we did a lot of feature stories. One day Mort Schiffer, the city editor then, says to me and [reporter] Joe Kahn, "Hey, this lady lost her dog and she says her baby's all excited and getting sick over the loss of the dog." So we go over to the lady's house, and there was a little girl about 2½ years old running around. This is the little girl supposed to be so excited, and she didn't give a damn. Joe is talking to the mother, but I figure the mother is no picture for me. Then I notice in the corner of the room was the leash and chain of the dog. I put the chain and leash in the kid's hand, and when Joe was busy talking to the mother, I whack the kid on the ass. Now she's crying, and I got my picture.

You just got to help a picture along sometimes. I used to carry roaches, crucifixes, a Bible, candles. In those days the Post was a liberal paper; we'd get stories from people who had roaches in their house, and rats, so I'd get a kid sleeping in his bed with his head on the pillow and I'd pin a couple of these roaches on the wall. Or I'd put a little glue on them. I did it very daintily. If I was working maybe for the Daily News, which was very conservative in those days, they wouldn't go for roach pictures.

Remember that kid that got eaten by the bear at the Prospect Park Zoo a few years back? We had the big headline: POLAR BEARS KILL TOT AT BROOKLYN ZOO. We go out there, there's four, five TV outfits, the Times, Newsweek, the Daily News. It was school time, and I saw four or five kids his age walking past the house. I sat them on the stoop. I always carry paper napkins with me, and I put two, three, in their hands, so they're sobbing. They were all sorry, I just made them look sorrier. If I just made a picture of the kids without the handkerchief, they ain't ever gonna use it. You just go a little step further. You help it along.

But nobody got a picture of this kid yet. The dead boy. Everybody's bangin' at the door, and nobody's gettin' into the house. I got a young Irish reporter with me, but the thing that I know in this business, you never send an Irishman into a Puerto Rican or Italian home. You got a Puerto Rican, send a Puerto Rican; you got an Italian, send an Italian. So I call up the city desk and I say, "Send me Sonia Reyes"—she's a Spanish-speaking reporter, the only one we had at the Post. She comes, I say, "Sonia, I know you haven't done many news stories"—she was doing music and entertainment—"but we don't have much time to waste. You bang at the door, speak only in Spanish. Say you want to talk to the family, do a nice sorrowful piece. Walk in with your head down and the minute you get in, slam the door behind you." She gets in, five minutes later I come in after her. I see the mother laid out on the couch being stroked by a niece, she's out cold. I say to the family, "I'm not gonna bother her, I just want to make a few shots." I'm back six feet, I bounce the light off the ceiling. Boom, boom, 60 seconds later, I'm outa there.... We're the only paper in town that has the interview with the family, we have a picture of the dead boy on Page One. I bribed a friend of the family to get me a picture I could copy.

You got sneak shots, setup shots, then you got shots I call Hail Marys—you shoot and pray. You got something, but you don't know what. Like the time this girl acrobat was doing a publicity stunt on a building that was being renovated. I got the assignment late. So I'm running to the building, and as I get there I see this image already shaping up, it was like the seventh floor or so, so I put on my long lens. I always have my long lens, short lens and medium lens in my pocket, so I can run. And as I'm walking toward the building with the long lens, and the camera horizontal, I could see she was losing her grip. I thought, "My God, this girl is gonna go." It was just that look of fright.

I knew I should turn the camera to get a vertical shot but I didn't want to move it—then all of a sudden I saw her let go. And as she let go, I followed her. I followed her maybe two floors down. On the fifth floor, I shot; and of course I had no motor in the camera, it was a single shot. She fell and she bounced off the wooden construction scaffolding. I could hear it from where I was and I was 100 feet away. I said to myself, "Jesus, I hope I have it." Only later did I think about her—miraculously, she survived. The pictures come first, then the emotions.

I went back to the office, I developed it. The look on the faces of the workmen as the girl falls, that's what makes the picture. I was very fortunate, they happened to be at that window looking at her with that scared look on their faces. I think just her falling woulda stunk. I took the New York Press Photographers Award in 1978 with that picture.

If there was a profession that was similar to news photography, what would it be? Jockeys, I think. You got one chance, like a jockey got one chance in a race to make his move.

Why do I wear my card in my hat? I don't know, I guess I'm accustomed to it. I have a lot of young photographers who when first coming on the job take a picture of me, I guess for posterity.

Naaaah, I don't feel like a relic. I can outrun most of these kids—for the first 50 feet.

Page 26 of Weegee's World: "Mr. Liotta's father worked at Acme[!!!]" and "Louie Liotta, a photographer who acted as Weegee's assistant..."

File this, in our little electronic filing cabinet, under friends and colleagues, with maybe a cross reference to photographers... and they don't make 'em like they used to...

Weegee's Always in Fashion...

2012-01-09T09:12:00.001-05:00

A few small screen grabs from a Vogue Daily blog...

File this under exhibitions and fashion...

These are not Weegee Photos... Recent Auctions

2012-01-08T20:12:00.000-05:00

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's "SKIS ""
Sold for $99.00

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's walt disneys silly symphony marionette theatre"
Sold for $102.50

Perhaps counterfeit or fraudenet Weegee photos...

Recent Auctions: Being Booked...

2012-01-08T08:12:00.000-05:00

Eli Shonbrun and Madeline Webb Being Booked, March 12, 1942

Sold for$338.33

Now For the Very First Time! The Magic Fountain!

2012-01-07T07:12:00.003-05:00

The Magic Fountain, 1961, (116 mins.)
Produced and directed by Allan David.

Special Effects by Weegee!
(Disappearing dwarf = Special Effects by Weegee!)
(Blurry prismatic sword, castle and Magic Fountain = Special Effects by Weegee!)

Only a few years after, and perhaps less successful, than Weege's Windjammer sequences...

(To Be Continued...)

Recent Auction: Sleeper

2012-01-05T05:12:00.000-05:00

Weegee, Sleeper, ca. 1946
Sold for $2,125.00
12/14/2011

"... now works as a free-lance photographer."

2012-01-03T03:12:00.000-05:00

PM Daily, ca. 1946
"Vivian Cherry, a chorus girl who studied dancing with Helen Tamiris and Martha Graham, has been unemployed since Show Boat, now works as a free-lance photographer."

While They Worked, They Celebrated...

2012-01-02T01:02:00.001-05:00

(correction - title should be: While Others Worked, They Celebrated)
(correction - title should be: While Others Celebrated, Others Worked)

Happy New Year... but just a minute...

2012-01-01T01:11:00.000-05:00

I (heart) fringe entertainers, the generally disenfranchised and glimmering, glitzy artifice...

2011-12-29T00:29:00.001-05:00

Two screen grabs...
The source is Salon...

Cheeta

2011-12-28T12:28:00.000-05:00

Two screen grabs...
This is the source of one...

"...seductive underbelly."

2011-12-27T12:27:00.001-05:00

2011's top coffee-table books
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles

Photojournalist Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, began his career in the 1930s taking black-and-white photos of crime scenes in New York with a bizarre film noir–esque flair. When he moved to Los Angeles in 1947, he began his second act, photographing celebrities and the fandemonium they sparked. With his eye for the unusual, he caught stars at unguarded moments, from unflattering angles, later distorting photos for a carnivalesque look at celebrity. Featuring about 200 photos currently on view at L.A.’s Museum of Contemprary Art, the book reprints Weegee’s 1953 Naked Hollywood and further explores Weegee’s career in Southern California with never-before-seen shots of Hollywood’s lurid, seductive underbelly.

From elle.com

71 years ago today... Weegee Covers Christmas in New York...

2011-12-26T12:46:00.000-05:00

Weegee Covers Christmas in New York...
In Words and Pictures...

71 years ago today... First Aid...

2011-12-26T12:26:00.000-05:00

First Aid
fails to revive Paul Ryan, killed by a gas explosion in his apartment at 865 First Ave. Police say it was apparently suicide. The Christmas night blast shook the 17-story building and injured two house employees.

December 26, 1940

A sad day in Weegee's World...

2011-12-26T00:26:00.002-05:00

(06/12/1899 - 12/26/1968)

70 years ago today... "Ticking of the clock brought on police investigation."

2011-12-22T12:22:00.002-05:00

Police Solve Mystery
Of Ticking Suitcase
But Virtually Ruin Contents
By Soaking It in Oil
An attendant at the Pennsylvania Station parcel-checking room wasn't taking any chances when he picked up a suitcase and heard a ticking noise inside it. He called police.
Bomb squad detectives took the suitcase to a nearby parking lot, soaked it in oil and opened it. They found an alarm clock, the hands indicating 5:28; three pairs of women's shoes, a raincoat, a meat chopper, two flatirons, two brushes and woman's undies.
The suitcase was returned to the checkroom, the contents a bit the worse for the oil.
(PM Daily, Monday, December 22, 1941)

71 years ago today... Boy Meets Girl...

2011-12-20T12:20:00.000-05:00

Boy Meets Girl - and that's no posed meeting as he came home last night on Christmas furlough... overcome with joy.

Amusements, February 1942...

2011-12-17T00:17:00.005-05:00

Amusements...

TO BE CONTINUED!!!

(Filed under culture and context...)

Love of "love of the lowbrow"... differently...

2011-12-17T00:17:00.004-05:00

http://www.moca.org/audio/blog/?p=2495

Weegee's Naked Hollywood @ MOCA

Filed under "Exhibitions" in our little electronic filing cabinet AND a blog post about a blog post about a blog post...

Nakedly Naked... and "recognizably prurient"

2011-12-16T12:16:00.002-05:00

NY Times Lens Blog post about Weegee's Naked Hollywood Exhibition:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/weegees-other-naked-city/

Brief excerpt:

Weegee’s Other Naked City
By David Dunlap
December 16, 2011

...Weegee may thus have some relevant [and prurient] lessons to offer artists, photographers and [prurient] museum-goers today.”
They are:
• Look all around, notice everything [pruriently]. “Often, this can be achieved by actually walking all around the subject, whatever it is, looking at it from every possible [prurient] perspective,” Weegee said.
• Think serially [pruriently]. “Think about a particular subject, theme or action, or even a piece of architecture that you might be [pruriently] interested in,” Weegee suggested. “Whenever you see another example, [pruriently] shoot it.”
• Photography is a [prurient] distortion. “I had to have a lens out of this [prurient] world to do full justice to the strange sights and [prurient] people which is Hollywood,” Weegee wrote.

Continuing the [prurient] tradition of advice, tips and tricks from Weegee and filling our little [prurient] electronic filing cabinet with [prurient] blog posts about a [prurient] blog post about a [prurient] blog post...

Recent Auctions: Not-so Naked Hollywood...

2011-12-16T11:11:00.002-05:00

Screen shot of auction website.

"A group of black and white negatives and contact sheets of Weegee (Arthur Fellig) taken by Joseph Jasgur, 1949–1950. Images include Weegee at home, at the 1949 Academy Awards, with females, and at various locations in Hollywood. Copyrights to the negatives will be transferred to the winning bidder. Negatives, 5 by 4 inches
Notes on copyrights and print dates:
The winning bidder of each lot containing copyrights will receive a document from The Estate of Joseph Jasgur and the bankruptcy trustee assigning the winning bidder all copyright interests to the image or images included in the specified lot. While the seller confirms that this property is sold with copyright, Julien’s can accept no liability in relation to any matters arising as a result of any imperfection in copyright given. Print dates for photographs vary and are in many cases unclear."

Sold for: $687.50

The above is from the auction website...

File this under auction, in our very little electronic filing cabinet...

Recent Auctions: Swann Galleries, Dec. 2011

2011-12-15T23:11:00.012-05:00

My studio (Weegee at home in back of Police Headquarters).

Sold for $4,200

Police and onlookers with body of Joseph (Little Joe) La Cava, killed during the Feast

Sold for $1,600

Policeman with two kittens he rescued from a fire in a five-story loft building, 372 E. Houston St., NYC.

Sold for $1,600

A Stitch in Time at Coney Island.

Sold for $2,000

Human cannonball (woman being fired from a cannon).

Sold for $4,000

All Wimpy wanted from the volunteer fireman was some more mustard and hamburgers.

Sold for $2,000

Boy sleeping in movie theatre.

Sold for $3,200

At the San Remo Bar.

Sold for $2,000

Invitation to the Dance

Sold for $3,000

Vegetable Peddler.

Sold for $5,000

Woman in space helmet smoking a cigarette.

Sold for $1,100

Mayor LaGuardia at scene of fire, New York City.

Sold for $2,000

Naked City.

Sold for $500

All images and text are screen shots from the Swann Galleries Website

This little post should be filed in our little electronic filing cabinet under Auctions...

This is not a Weegee photograph: "Weegee Himself"

2011-12-15T18:36:00.000-05:00

($499.99)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's
"FROM WEEGEE PRIVATE PHOTOS"
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 5x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Another fraudulent Weegee photograph... this time the title (significantly and appropriately) changed... "WEEGEE HIMSELF" disappeared...

These are not Weegee photographs... Counterfeit? Fraud?

2011-12-15T18:16:00.007-05:00

These photographs were recently available on eBay:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's "The Cathedral of St. Patrick"

($149.99)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's "The Cathedral of St. Patrick"
"FROM WEEGEE PRIVATE PHOTOS,A MAN'S SHADOW AT LINCOLN CENTER "
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rar

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's "COKE A COLA ON THE BEACH"

($125.00)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's "COKE A COLA ON THE BEACH"
"FROM WEEGEE PRIVATE PHOTOS,A MAN'S SHADOW AT LINCOLN CENTER "
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weegee
STRAIGHT FROM WORLD FAMOUS ARCHIVE

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Yuletide Logs on a Fire

($75.00)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Yuletide Logs on a Fire
original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity.
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Board Walk Restaurant

($149.99)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Board Walk Restaurant
This picture is one of my favourites from collection and have not listed it due to a small stain
original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity.
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's walt disneys silly symphony marionette theatre

($149.99)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's walt disneys silly symphony marionette theatre
due to age and rarity the picture has a small crack in the left corner
The first of Disney's Silly Symphonies was the landmark The Skeleton Dance (1929),... characters - it produced Disney's first Academy Award, the first of Walt's 32 ....awards for one of television's first daily live puppet shows, Time for Beany. ... The first of a series of theatrical cartoons
original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity.
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's stamped CONEYISLAND

($125.00)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's stamped CONEYISLAND
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's "METROPOLITAN OPERA"

Sold for: $149.00

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's "METROPOLITAN OPERA"
"FROM WEEGEE PRIVATE PHOTOS,A MAN'S SHADOW AT LINCOLN CENTER "
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 5x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

($135.00)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"THE TOP OF THIS PHOTO ON THE BUILDING SAYS Associated PRESS "
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 5x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's walt disneys silly symphony marionette theatre

($149.99)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's walt disneys silly symphony marionette theatre
original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's "Having a Refreshment "

($125.00)

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's "Having a Refreshment "
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's stamped "Bear at the ZOO "

Sold for: $125.00

From the auction listing:

Weegee Original Photograph 1940's stamped "Bear at the ZOO "
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity

Of course we could be wrong, but these photographs were not made by Weegee. And someone is committing (semi-literate, poorly executed) fraud.

Recent Auctions: Unidentified Photographer's Untitled Contact Sheet

2011-12-15T12:33:00.001-05:00

Unidentified Photographer

Sold for: $49.95

From the auction listing:

WEEGEE Original Contact Photo Print Sheet Includes Arthur Fellig Photograph

This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch contact print sheet made by famous celebrity newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig (WEEGEE). One of the images shows WEEGEE nibbling on the ear of a beautiful woman.

THIS ITEM comes from the estate of Peter Martin who was a close friend of WEEGEE and was the publisher of several photo magazines during the early 1950s. Martin's photo studio in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a meeting place for many famous & aspiring photographers of the time.

Recent Auctions: Untitled

2011-12-15T12:33:00.000-05:00

Sold for: US $72.76

From the auction listing:

WEEGEE Original Contact Sheet Photo Print From Naked Hollywood Strip Club

This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch vintage contact print page showing a single image of a female stripper in the upper right hand margin.

THIS ITEM comes from the estate of Peter Martin who was a close friend of WEEGEE and was the publisher of several photo magazines during the early 1950s. Martin's photo studio in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a meeting place for many famous & aspiring photographers of the time.

Recent Auctions: Untitled

2011-12-15T12:21:00.000-05:00

Sold for: $112.50

From the auction listing:

WEEGEE Original 8 X 10 Photo Movie Star Distortion '50s Arthur Fellig Photograph

This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch silver gelatin photograph made by noted celebrity and newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig in the early 1950s. Late in his career WEEGEE used various darkroom manipulations to satarize public figures such as movie stars and politicians, here is one of them.

This item is in excellent condition, in sharp focus. There is no photographer's imprint or signature, however we guarantee authenticity of this item so bid with confidence.

THIS ITEM comes from the estate of Peter Martin who was a close friend of WEEGEE and was the publisher of several photo magazines during the early 1950s. Martin's photo studio in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a meeting place for many famous & aspiring photographers of the time.

Recent Auctions: Untitled

2011-12-15T12:18:00.004-05:00

Sold for: $123.49

From the auction listing:

WEEGEE Original 8 X 10 Photo Woman at Sammy's The Bowery 1942 Arthur Fellig

This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch silver gelatin photograph made by noted celebrity and newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig. This one is on heavy stock paper.

This item is in excellent condition, with sharp focus and good contrast. There is no photographer's imprint or signature, however we guarantee authenticity of this item so bid with confidence.

THIS ITEM comes from the estate of Peter Martin who was a close friend of WEEGEE and was the publisher of several photo magazines during the early 1950s. Martin's photo studio in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a meeting place for many famous & aspiring photographers of the time.

Of course we could be wrong, but we don't think that photo was made in Sammy's, or on the Bowery, or in 1942...

Recent Auctions: "Rent Party"

2011-12-15T12:18:00.003-05:00

Sold for: $154.01

From the auction listing:

WEEGEE Original 8 by 10 Photograph Rent Party 1942 Arthur Fellig Photo

This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch silver gelatin photograph made by noted celebrity and newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig.

Please note--The photo is in overall good condition, however there is light wrinkling along the upper margin of gthe print (which does not affect the overall quality of the image). There is no photographer's imprint or signature, however we guarantee authenticity of this item so bid with confidence.

THIS ITEM comes from the estate of Peter Martin who was a close friend of WEEGEE and was the publisher of several photo magazines during the early 1950s. Martin's photo studio in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a meeting place for many famous & aspiring photographers of the time.

Of course we could be wrong, but that photo was not made in 1942... ca. 1955 is closer to the truth...

In our little electronic filling cabinet this one goes in the "Auction" folder...

Recent Auctions: "Drunk Tank"

2011-12-15T12:17:00.000-05:00

Sold for: $617.76

From the auction listing:

WEEGEE Original 8 X 10 Photo New York City Drunk Tank 1941 Arthur Fellig w Stamp
This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch silver gelatin photograph made by noted celebrity and newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig.

Please note--The photo is in excellent condition, however it has been trimmed along the right margin without affecting the quality of the image. "CREDIT PHOTO BY WEEGEE-THE FAMOUS" is on the reverse.

THIS ITEM comes from the estate of Peter Martin who was a close friend of WEEGEE and was the publisher of several photo magazines during the early 1950s. Martin's photo studio in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a meeting place for many famous & aspiring photographers of the time.

Of course we could be wrong, but the photo was probably made in California in ca. 1950...

In our little electronic filling cabinet this one goes in the "Auction" folder...

Recent Auctions: "Naked Hollywood Contact Sheet"

2011-12-15T12:16:00.004-05:00

Sold for $63.00

From the auction listing:

"WEEGEE Original Contact Photo Print Page From Naked Hollywood Arthur Fellig

This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch contact print page showing different images that appear in WEEGEE's book NAKED HOLLYWOOD.

THIS ITEM comes from the estate of Peter Martin who was a close friend of WEEGEE and was the publisher of several photo magazines during the early 1950s. Martin's photo studio in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a meeting place for many famous & aspiring photographers of the time. "

In our little electronic filling cabinet this one goes in the "Auction" folder...

Recent auctions: "Sleeper"

2011-12-15T12:15:00.002-05:00

Sold for: $2,125.00

From the auction listing:

RARE 1946 Original Photo ARTHUR F. WEEGEE Man Sleeps on Window
The Great WEEGEE !

A RARE, Vintage 1946 ORIGINAL Photograph taken by Weegee (1899-1968), one of the most famous of all photojournalist who was renowned for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee (the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig) worked in the Lower East Side of New York City as a press photographer during the 1930s and '40s. He developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. Here Weegee captures a striking image of a man sleeping in a bank window near Times Square. This is a RARE and highly desirable period original issued by Acme Newspictures, the news service agency who employed the master photographer during ands shortly after the War years. Original press stamp and caption with date are on the reverse of this 7" x 9" photograph of with superb contrast and razor sharp clarity.

True vintage period works (those issued at the time) by Weegee and are highly sought after. This is an exceptional exemplar worthy of the finest of photographic galleries !

Of course wee could be wrong, but wee think this was one of a set of prints produced by Acme (obviously not printed by Weegee) and used to promote the book "Weegee's People."

File this one under "Auction."

"Spike Jones, the music mauler..." (Not Weegee, but not bad...)

2011-12-14T12:14:00.003-05:00

PM Daily, Unidentified Photographer, July 1946???

Happy 100th Birthday Spike Jones...

2011-12-12T12:12:00.001-05:00

Swann Galleries, 12 Weegee Photos on 12/12/2011

Entirely Irrelevant: Bubble Gum Champ...

2011-12-12T00:13:00.000-05:00

(To be continued...)

Entirely Irrelevant: Atomic Tomcat

2011-12-12T00:12:00.000-05:00

This is not a Weegee photo: "Weegee Original Photograph 1940's stamped CONEYISLAND" - Counterfeit? Fraud?

2011-12-08T12:08:00.000-05:00

This photo was recently for sale on eBay...

Unsold

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

The Photo League, which ran that zany...

2011-12-07T15:00:00.002-05:00

... but funful photo scavenger hunt last summer, is up to a new wrinkle. This time it's a Cafe Photographer afternoon...

Two Eyes (Closed)

2011-12-05T12:55:00.001-05:00

"And so I'm being chipper with my zipper..."

2011-12-04T12:04:00.008-05:00

Unidentified Photographer, Sherry Britton, ca. 1942

AN EXOTIC STRIPPER
Sherry Britton's Exciting
and Fiery Dance
HER DUAL PERSONALITY

BY E. FARRELL

Viewed from an orchestra seat, the personality of a beautiful performer often remains an unsolvable riddle...
Thus, when exotic Sherry Britton chants a slightly naughty ditty, and drops with thorough finesse and little difficulty the bright scarlet satin gown and the interesting undergarments which lie beneath it, we are inclined to regard Miss Britton as a daring performer.
Recently I sat out front at the Gaiety Theater [1545 Broadway] in New York and joined in the applause which greeted Sherry.
In a husky, low voice, full of delightful suggestions, the strikingly beautiful brunette sang clever lyrics of "How I Got My Start." It was a charming way of introducing the better thins to come. When Sherry got to the lines which went, "And so I'm being chipper with my zipper", and unzipped her gown, the audience fairly howled.
With remarkable grace, Sherry stepped out of her gown, turned her back to the audience and to the accompaniment of Turkish Harem music, performed a series of deep grinds and low bumps, which would have warmed any Sultan's heart. Her long, dark brown hair fell in deep waves down her back, rivuleting at her waist seductively. Then Sherry, clad in her diaphanous underskirt of bright red voile, with a small, matching brassiere, paraded enticingly across the stage.
Finally, she dropped her underskirt and bra and stood before the audience, revealing the full glory of her firm young body...
I caught Sherry backstage...
"Don't be so amazed," Sherry told me, when I mentioned my confusion at the metamorphosis. "Truly I'm quite apart from my work, I have the amazing capacity of transforming myself in and out of character...
Things on the stage are not always as they seem."

(TO BE CONTINUED...)

The National Police Gazette, February 1942 [shortly before the Gaiety was closed]

Joe Gould!

2011-12-04T00:04:00.001-05:00

Unidentified Photographer, ca. 1943.
(One of the "Patron Saints" of this little digital file cabinet...)

67 Years Ago Today... "OPENING NIGHT AT THE MET..."

2011-12-03T12:33:00.000-05:00

December 3, 1944 - "OPENING NIGHT AT THE MET: Monday evening - during the first act of Faust..."

70 Years Ago Today... "1941 - "You've often wondered..."

2011-12-03T12:32:00.000-05:00

December 3, 1941 - 1941 - "You've often wondered what it would be like if one of these fell..."

71 Years ago today... "Fourteen persons were rescued..."

2011-12-03T12:31:00.000-05:00

December 3, 1940 - "Fourteen persons were rescued by police and firemen during a fast moving fire in the 5-story Travelers Hotel, 209 Ninth Ave...."

71 Years ago today... ""The Opera Opened Last Night..."

2011-12-03T12:30:00.000-05:00

December 3, 1940 - "The Opera Opened Last Night. Weegee made this picture. He tells how on page 2."

Entirely Irrelevant: Billie Holiday!

2011-12-03T00:34:00.004-05:00

Skippy Adlerman, "Billie Holiday, Joe Guy, her trumpeter-husband and Mister, her dog, photographed in Billie's dressing room at the Downbeat Club." ca. 1945

6 Tube 1937 Auto Radio...

2011-12-03T00:03:00.000-05:00

(According to the Internet: $18.74 in 1937 had the same buying power as $293.39 in 2011... Or, about a month's rent, if you're living at 5 Centre Market Place...)

O.K. Joe?...

2011-12-02T00:34:00.002-05:00

A crow!

Photo by World Wide...

71 years ago today... "Sunday Traffic..."

2011-12-02T00:20:00.001-05:00

December 2, 1940 - "Sunday Traffic: Frank Woods, 24... drove down the West Side highway..."

Great Blog Post!!!

2011-12-01T12:01:00.003-05:00

And great photos!

"November 30, 2011
Hollyweird Freakshow at MOCA
by Sam Handleman"

http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=4760

"Both shows were so impressive and so fun... You'll get a great take on the Hollywood you thought you knew from two characters you need to know."

And great photos!

From Naked City to Shangri-La... Coming Soon...

2011-12-01T01:21:00.001-05:00

Unidentified Artist...

(TO BE CONTINUED...)

67 Years Ago Today... "A Helping Hand..."

2011-12-01T00:11:00.001-05:00

December 1, 1944 - "A Helping Hand for Miss Liberty"

68 Years ago today... "End of a Bandit Chase..."

2011-12-01T00:11:00.000-05:00

December 1, 1943 - "End of a Bandit Chase"

Exhibitions... When in Vienna...

2011-11-30T17:55:00.002-05:00

(A screenshot of the Westlicht website...)

At WestLicht, Wien
Nov. 22, 2011- Feb. 12, 2012

The exhibition is: "approximately 250 original vintage prints" from the "Auer Photo Foundation."

[Looks like all of the dates and many of the titles are not correct, on the website]

Exhibitions... When in Westport...

2011-11-30T12:21:00.002-05:00

"On Duty: Odermatt, Metinides and Weegee
From the Andrew and Christine Hall Collection"
at the Westport Arts Center

...45 photographs by three important historic photographers – a Swiss policeman, Arnold Odermatt; a Mexican photojournalist, Enrique Metinides; and New York’s Arthur Fellig, known as “Weegee.”

Weegee was here...

2011-11-30T11:30:00.007-05:00

5 Centre Market Place, ca. 1937

5 Centre Market Place, ca. 2004

5 Centre Market Place, ca. 2006

5 Centre Market Place, ca. 2008

5 Centre Market Place. ca. 2010
(screen images from an (un)real estate company's website...)

(TO BE CONTINUED...)

File and Forget... 12,337

2011-11-30T01:30:00.001-05:00

The Weegee Wikipedia article has been viewed 12,337 times in the last 30 days...

67 Years Ago Today... "Waiting outside the Opera House for standing room..."

2011-11-28T11:28:00.003-05:00

November 28, 1944 - "Waiting outside the Opera House for standing room..."

Recent Internet auction...

2011-11-28T11:28:00.002-05:00

"WEEGEE Original Dean Martin 8 X 10 Photo From Naked Hollywood 1953 Arthur Fellig"

Sold for $52.00

"This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch silver gelatin photograph of actor DEAN MARTIN taken by the famous celebrity photographer Arthur Fellig (WEEGEE) and used in his 1953 book "NAKED HOLLYWOOD." The photo is in excellent condition in very sharp focus and good contrast.
Please note--NO signature or photographer's stamp, however we guarantee authenticity of this item---bid with confidence. "

"WEEGEE Original 8 X 10 Photo HOT HOUSE SANTA From Naked Hollywood Arthur Fellig"

Sold for $412.76

"This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch silver gelatin photograph produced by Arthur Fellig (WEEGEE) and used in his famous publication "NAKED HOLLYWOOD." Please note---The photo is in good condition with a small piece of the lower left corner missing---does not affect quality of the image.
Photographic stamp "CREDIT WEEGEE THE FAMOUS" is on the reverse. "

[Of course that's the "Credit Photo By Weegee" stamp, in the much more common purple ink.]

"WEEGEE Original Groman's Mortuary Los Angeles Bench 8 X 10 Photo Arthur Fellig"

Sold for $78.00

"This auction is for a vintage 8 by 10 inch silver gelatin photographic print of a bus bench sign "GROMAN'S MORTUARY" (Los Angeles) taken by the famous celebrity photographer Arthur Fellig (WEEGEE). The photo is in excellent condition in very sharp focus and good contrast.
Please note--NO signature or photographer's stamp, however we guarantee authenticity of this item---bid with confidence."

"WEEGEE Original 7 3/4 by 10 Photo Death of a Gangster Arthur Fellig"

Sold for $289.00

"This auction is for an original 7 3/4 by 10 inch silver gelatin photograph taken by the legendary crime photographer Arthur Fellig during the late 1930s. This classic image depicts Weegee's genius for capturing the darker side of life in New York City during the great depression. "

[Of course he captured the "darker" and lighter side of life in NYC after the Great Depression...]

y tu?

2011-11-27T23:27:00.000-05:00

Are you still fighting fascism?

70 Years Ago Today...

2011-11-27T11:27:00.013-05:00

"His Master Died
in this room which was shattered by the blast of an illuminating-gas explosion last night, but a black shepherd dog Freca, was uninjured by either the gas or the explosion. Police say Thomas Quinn, 31, a commercial artist, was found lying in front of a gas stove with all the jets open in his West 26th Street apartment, but failed to make either a suicide or accident listing. Freca hid behind a small piano. PM photos by Weegee

PM Daily, Noveber 27, 1941

These Are Not Weegee Photographs:

2011-11-27T11:27:00.012-05:00

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's pin up girl"

Sold for $65.00

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's CAR"

Sold for: $75.00

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's In love with a mannequin"

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's"

Unsold.

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"WEEGEE Stamped 1940's US coast guard"

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"WEEGEE Original 1940's stamped ! Boy Fishing.."

Unsold.

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's PIPE"

Unsold.

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Photographer at urinal"

Sold for: $85.00

From the auction listing:
" original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's FUNNY READ"

Sold for: $99.00

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silv
original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Water Lily"

Sold for $65.00

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's The metropolitan opera"

Sold for $85.00

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

The above images were recently for sale on eBay... a few were sold; a few were not sold... they are not Weegee photographs... are they counterfeit and/or fraudulent?

67 Years Ago Today... "Members of the Metropolitan Opera's male chorus..."

2011-11-26T09:49:00.000-05:00

November 26, 1944 - "Members of the Metropolitan Opera's male chorus..."

"The Bowery, The Bowery... Not The Bowery, Not The Bowery..."

2011-11-25T11:25:00.003-05:00

Associated Press Photos, Unidentified Photographer, ca. 1946

Bowery Wants to Shed Name
The Bowery - "no longer the street of forgotten [people]" will have its face and name changed, if plans develop the way the Bowery Improvement Committee of the East Side Chamber of Commerce wants them to...
Sam Fuchs [Sammy!], owner of Sammy's Bowery Follies, said it wouldn't help merchants to change the name and proposed sending "smoke hounds" home or to a farm for rehabilitation...

69 Years Ago Today... "How to Wreck a Tavern - Cold Sober"

2011-11-25T10:11:00.000-05:00

November 25, 1942 "How to Wreck a Tavern - Cold Sober"

70 Years Ago Today... 1941 - "This season the opera opening was not all high hat..."

2011-11-25T10:10:00.000-05:00

November 24, 1941 - "This season the opera opening was not all high hat..."

Broadwayite of the Month... 1946

2011-11-25T09:29:00.002-05:00

Unidentified Photographer, March 1946,

Broadwayite of the Month
Allyn McLerie is our Broadwayite of the month. This exotic, dark-eyed beauty is now the dancing ingenue of the hit musical "On the Town."..

Not Cheese Cake... Cheesecake!

2011-11-25T09:19:00.004-05:00

Cheese photo by Photo by John Alpert, 1947
"No, this is not a cheese cake picture. Just cheese. The cheese to be specific, is the largest piece of Provolone ever made. It is 15 feet long, 5 feet wide and weighs 1500 lbs. It arrived yesterday at Italian Farmers, a delicatessen store at 277 Bleeker St. The Provolone pretties are..."

Cheesecake photos by Unidentified Photographers, 1946
"A Bevy of Shapley Beauties..."

"No Matter How You Slice It, It's Cheese..."

(to be continued...)

Tonite and Saturday Nite!

2011-11-25T08:28:00.003-05:00

Bunk Johnson
and his band
will play at the
Stuyvesant Casino
140 Second Ave.
Tonite and Saturday Nite
November 21 & 22
Relax and Dance from 9 to 1
Amsission $1.20

Bunk Johnson at the Stuyvesant Casino, Photo by Steven Derry

(to be continued...)

Tonite!

2011-11-25T08:18:00.001-05:00

"Plenty of Jam for the Holidays... And Cranberry Sherbet..."

2011-11-24T23:24:00.002-05:00

Photos by Associated Press and Steven Derry, Nov. 28, 1946
Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central Station

Tips for Thanksgiving:
You Can Save on Sugar With These Berry Recipes
by Elizabeth Korthauer

No-Sugar Cranberry Sauce
Cranberry Fruit Sauce

Cranberry Sherbet
1 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup sugar
1 2/3 cups cranberry sauce
2 tea spoons lemon juice
1 egg white

Up He Goes... Happy Thanksgiving...

2011-11-24T11:24:00.000-05:00

1946-1948

Not Weegee... but not bad...

(TO BE CONTINUED...)

The Critic Reported...

2011-11-22T23:22:00.010-05:00

Photo by Skippy Adelman
Between acts at the Opera, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh was seen thus with her diamonds and her orchids across a champagne bottle at the bar on the mezzanine. She told a PM reporter her earrings weighed 20 karats earch and that she was wearing them, as usual, "to keep up morale." "Everybody's dressing up in England this Winter," she added.

"Artist Diego Rivera, noted artist who is being sought by Mexican police in connection with a bus shooting...

2011-11-22T23:22:00.009-05:00

noted artist who is being sought by Mexican police in connection with a bus shooting..."
November 28, 1947

"Girl elevator operators at Police Headquarters..."

2011-11-22T23:22:00.002-05:00

Photo by John Albert, January, 12, 1943
"Girl elevator operators at Police Headquarters break an old departmental tradition. Here is Agnes E. Welch, 20, of 600 E. 141st St., at the controls. She is one of two girls who replace men civilian employes who have gone to war. One elevator, however, will be continue to be operated by men; it is used exclusively for transporting prisoners. Photo by John Albert, PM

These are not Weegee Photographs:

2011-11-22T11:22:00.004-05:00

"WEEGEE ORIGINAL 1940's Boys Outdoors with cigars and the newspaper"

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"WEEGEE Original photo 1940's Henri Matisse "Rouge et Noir " Stamped"

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"WEEGEE ORIGINAL STAMPED PHOTO~ 1940's GOLEB"

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original photo 1940's Devils Holiday"

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee original stamped photo 1940's Gentleman & radio"

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

The above were recently for sale on eBay...

"Stars on Broadway, Shoe Shine, Repair While You Wait..."

2011-11-21T23:55:00.000-05:00

ca. 2007
From the archives...
Weegee exhibition, 44th St., between 6th and 7th Ave.

These are not Weegee Photographs:

2011-11-21T23:21:00.000-05:00

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Row your boat"

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity."

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's PIPE"

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Water Lily"

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's In love with a mannequin"

From the auction listing:

"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Sailer on nyc subway"

From the auction listing:

"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "
"straight from his archive stamped and limited
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

Sold for $65.00

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Lady in the Tiara"

Slightly incoherent "information" from the auction listing:

"Beautiful original vintag
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "
"straight from his archive stamped and limited
Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

Sold for $99.00

(If you spent $100 for that boring photograph, because you thought it was a Weegee photograph... you might want to think about asking for a refund...)

Coleman Hawkins!

2011-11-21T11:21:00.002-05:00

COLEMAN HAWKINS
will be in the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert this Saturday, Nov. 29, at Carnegie Hall at 8:30. The concert, a tribute to Billie Holiday, will also feature the King Cole Trio.

Happy Birthday Coleman Hawkins!

These are not Weegee Photographs...

2011-11-17T19:17:00.010-05:00

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Bottoms UP"
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Photographer at urinal"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"Weegee Original Photograph 1940's CAR"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"WEEGEE ORIGINAL STAMPED PHOTO~ 1940's GOLEB"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"WEEGEE Original photo 1940's boy with bunny"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"Weegee Original photo 1940's Devils Holiday"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"WEEGEE Original 1940's stamped photo ~Man in coat"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity WEEGEE Original 1940's stamped photo ~Man in coat"

"WEEGEE STAMPED ORIGINAL 1940's Leaping man"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"WEEGEE Original stamped Photograph~ Military Men at the Bar"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

"WEEGEE 1940's Original photo stamped~ Man lighting pipe by the fire"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

These are good examples of bad counterfeit photographs; good examples of fraud...

11 11 Number 267

2011-11-11T23:11:00.002-05:00

Essential Books
requests
the pleasure
of your company
to celebrate with
WEEGEE
the publication of
WEEGEE"S PEOPLE
Monday evening
the eleventh of November
Number 267
on the Bowery

Some of the lost kids in the Lost Children Center at Coney Island, Summer 2006...

2011-11-11T11:11:00.002-05:00

Some of the lost kids in the Lost Children Center at Coney Island, Summer ca. 1940... and Midtown, Summer, 2006...

This is not a Weegee photograph: eBay Internet Auction: "Weegee Original Photograph 1940's The metropolitan opera" - Counterfeit? Fraud?

2011-11-11T02:45:00.000-05:00

From the auction listing:
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

Counterfeit?
Fraud?

This is not a Weegee photograph: eBay Internet Auction: "Weegee Original Photograph 1940's" - Counterfeit? Fraud?

2011-11-11T02:44:00.001-05:00

This is not a Weegee photo: eBay Internet Auction: "WEEGEE 1940's Original stamped photo~Boys In The Front seat of the Car" - Counterfeit? Fraud?

2011-11-11T02:42:00.002-05:00

This is not a Weegee photograph: eBay Internet Auction: "WEEGEE Original stamped 1940's Goofing around ..." Counterfeit? Fraud?

2011-11-11T02:41:00.001-05:00

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

Counterfeit?
Fraud?

This is not a Weegee photograph: eBay Internet Auction: "WEEGEE ORIGINAL 1940's Boys Outdoors with cigars and the newspaper" Counterfeit? Fraud?

2011-11-11T02:40:00.001-05:00

From the auction listing"
"original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 4x4 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity "

Counterfeit?
Fraud?

This is not a Weegee photograph: eBay Internet Auction: "Weegee Original Photograph 1940's Man in uniform at Bar" Counterfeit? Fraud?

2011-11-11T02:39:00.001-05:00

From the auction listing:
"Beautiful original vintage silver gelatin photograph by the famous Weegee,measures 3x5 in.Here's your chance to own a piece of photographic history.With Weegee stamp on verso.In good condition especially for it"s age and rarity"

Counterfeit?
Fraud?

Bizarre Weegee Reference of the Day

2011-11-11T02:34:00.004-05:00

From the NY Times
Crime Scene Investigation: 360 Degrees
By MichaelWilson
11/18/2011

...The New York City Police Department began using a new camera, the Panoscan, in 2009, revolutionizing crime-scene photography in the city. Part Weegee, part video game, the camera creates 360-degree images that allow investigators, from the comfort of their desks, to point and click over evidence from a scene that they might have missed in the hectic hours after the crime...

"A Tour of Naked Hollywood"

2011-11-11T02:33:00.004-05:00

"A Tour of Naked Hollywood"

Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
November 13, 2011–February 27, 2012