gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Weegee... Untitled (Next Showing) (ca. 1950s, Gelatin silver print, Stamped on back). From the exhibition Batters | Kroll | Weegee - photographs from the collection of Eric Kroll at Anna Kustera Gallery in New York. "...Widely known for his 1994 coffee table book 'Fetish Girls' published by Taschen – which has sold over 200,000 copies – Kroll particularly enjoys other photographers who share his passion,...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Germany has long been funny about celebrity, which makes the show at the Helmut Newton Foundation a particularly fascinating and revealing exercise.
The Moment (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
A new exhibition in Berlin zooms in on zooming in on candid celebrity cameras....
pMachine Community Forums (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Needless to say, this is useful when you’re using a “weblog as gallery”. Unfortunately, right now this only works on a field whose Field Type is “File” – which is another 3rd-party extension, by Mark Huot. You can get File by Mark Huot here . You enter one field id (the field id for the File field you have) – and Weegee will put a thumb from that field on the Edit page (see attached pic). This also...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Lens Culture... Battered - Photographs by Harri Pälviranta . "...Like a modern-day Weegee, Harri Palviranta cruises the night streets of Finland, armed with his Hasselblad camera and a big flash, looking for a fight to photograph, or the bloodied face of a drunken party-goer, or the scene of a recent brawl. Drunken public violence is an increasing occurrence among the young and restless in many parts...
viewfromaloft (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Joshua Meindertsma has a Weegee moment at the 70th Anniversary Celebration of "New Chinatown" just after the 1940's costume contest held in Central Plaza. He came in from West Hollywood to attend the celebration and take in some art galleries...
INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
I get a lot of e-mail requesting photos of my office. This was shot with a Canon PowerShot Pro Series S5 IS 8.0MP with 12x optical image stabilized zoom. Please note the composition, which is an homage to Weegee.
Slice (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
From today's Corrections: For the Record : A listing of books, a Web site, movies and restaurants on Friday with the Weekend Explorer column, about sites in New York associated with the photographer Weegee, referred incorrectly to Lombardi’s Pizza, at 32 Spring Street on the Lower East Side, an area where Weegee lived and worked. It sells pizza only as pies, not by the slice. ( Go to Article ) I think...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Crime Was Weegee’s Oyster by John Strausbaugh (New York Times, June 20, 2008). "...On the north side of Broome Street, between the Bowery and Elizabeth Street, you can stand where a dead guy once lay. Of course in New York City you can stand on lots of spots where dead people once lay. There are, after all, 'eight million stories in the naked city,' as the narrator of 'The Naked City,' the 1948 film...
Richard's Notes (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
An enourmous collection of New York City Images. Note part way through shots by Weegee, Feininger, Kertesz and more. All of the imags are great and there are some famous ones sprinkled in. [via kottke.org]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
BERLIN - The Helmut Newton Foundation presents approximately 350 B/W and color prints by Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Quinn, Angeli, Secchiaroli, Pigozzi and Newton, the exhibition presents the forerunners and central figures of the “classic” period of Paparazzi Photography - and provides a visual commentary about the evolution of this phenomenon.
University of California Press Blog (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
The photographer Weegee's camera was the eye of the night; with his eerily accurate timing and nocturnal hours, he provided the curious with a porthole to Manhattan's midnight world. He was one of the first tabloid photographers, showcasing bloodstained gangsters,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
From the mid-1930s into the postwar years, Manhattan’s nightscape belonged to Weegee, one of the city’s most famous crime and street photographers.
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
“..I must admit, before meeting Tom, I had heard so many rumours and so much gossip that I was afraid. Frankly, his gambling debts, his animal magnetism, coupled with his disregard for the feelings of others… ..His elaborate gun collection, his mad shopping-sprees, the face-lifts, the ski trips, the drug busts and the hundreds of [...]
Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
In Weegee and Naked City (University of California Press, 2008), art historians Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer offer a new look at photojournalist Arthur Fellig, who documented so much of New York city life including crime scenes for the...
