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"Two Times" (between 1995-1997) by Antony Gormley (UK, London, ° August 30, 1950)
at EMMA, the Espoo Museum Of Modern Art
Collection : Saastamoinen Foundation
Exhibition Centre WeeGee,
former Weilin & Göös printing house (1965),
Ahertajantie 5,
Tapiola
FIN-02070 Espoo
Finland
architect Aarno Ruusuvuori (1925–1992)
© picture by Mark Larmuseau
Santa Monica, CA.
I think that this one has a very Weegee feel to it -- minus the dead body, that is.
Maker: Arthur Fellig, aka Weegee (1899 - 1968)
Born: Ukraine
Active: USA
Medium: gelatin silver print
Size: 8" x 10"
Location: USA
Object No. 2015.228
Shelf: E-40
Publication: Weegee and Mel Harris, Naked Hollywood, Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York, unpaginated
Other Collections:
Notes: American photographer, active in New York City and Hollywood. Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee professionally, is noted for his photographs depicting crime and other newsworthy events, usually taken at night. His early career was spent as a freelance press photographer. He prided himself on his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime before the police, and derived his name from the phonetic pronunciation of the Ouija board. He sold his images to tabloid newspapers from 1935 through the 1940s, and published his first book, Naked City in 1945, followed by Weegee's People in 1946. Naked City was a commercial success and guaranteed his income. At this point he began taking portraits of celebrities and figures in the entertainment industry. He used a variety of trick lenses to distort and manipulate these images, and often exposed or exagerrated the imperfections of his subjects. He experimented with infrared film and flash to make exposures in darkness, particularly of people in darkened movie theaters. Weegee used a 4x5 Speed Graphic press camera and flash exclusively throughout his career; and is not known for his printing virtuosity, but for the elements of social critique in his photographs. He was a flamboyant character, and revelled in his own notoreity and mythology. (source: Getty Museum)
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Maker: Weegee [Arthur Fellig] (American, 1899 - 1968)
Title: Kaleidoscopic Distortion [Man with Saxophone]
Date: ca. 1955
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Even veteran crime photographer Dave Gallvin had to turn away from the ghastly murder scene in front of him.
Irving Penn
Irving Penn's still lifes are masterpieces of understatement. Building a sculpture of frozen foods - carefully stacked by contrasting shape and colour for maximum effect - Penn took the photograph at precisely the moment when the food was beginning to thaw, its frost softening and the true colours of the fruit and vegetables beginning to peep through. At the same time, he unites the sculptural form with photography's abilities to stop time and describe in minute detail.
[Photographers' Gallery]
From Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography (October 2019 - February 2020)
Exploring the rich history of food photography through some of the leading figures and movements within the genre including: Nobuyoshi Araki, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Weegee.
Encompassing fine-art and vernacular photography, commercial and scientific images, photojournalism and fashion, the exhibition looks at the development of this form and the artistic, social and political contexts that have informed it.
Food has always been a much-photographed and consumed subject, offering a test ground for artistic experimentation and a way for artists to hone their skills. But even the most representative images of food have rarely been straightforward or objective. Food as subject matter is rich in symbolic meaning and across the history of art, has operated as a vessel for artists to explore a particular emotion, viewpoint or theme and express a range of aspirations and social constructs. With the advent of social media, interest in food photography has become widespread with the taking and sharing of images becoming an integral part of the dining experience itself, used as instant signifiers of status and exacerbating a sense of belonging and difference.
Feast for the Eyes looks particularly at how food is represented and used in photographic practices and brings together a broad-range of artists all of whom harness the history and popularity of food photography to express wider themes. Crossing public and private realms the works on show evoke deep-seated questions and anxieties about issues such as wealth, poverty, consumption, appetite, tradition, gender, race, desire, pleasure, revulsion and domesticity.
Presented over two floors, and featuring over 140 works, from black and white silver gelatin prints and early experiments with colour processes to contemporary works, the exhibition is arranged around three key themes: Still Life traces food photography’s relationship to one of the most popular genres in painting and features work that is both inspired by the tradition and how it has changed in the course of time. Around the Table looks at the rituals that takes place around the consumption of food and the cultural identities reflected through the food we eat and people we eat with. Finally, Playing with Food shows what happens when food photography is infused with humour, fun and irony. The exhibition will also feature a number of magazines and cookbooks which provide an additional visual and social history of food photography.
Feast for the Eyes traces the history and effect of food in photography, simultaneously exploring our appetite for such images while celebrating the richness and artistic potential of one of the most popular, compulsive and ubiquitous of photographic genres.
[Photographers' Gallery]
WEEGEE (1899–1968)
Love in the Cinema (Infrared photograph), Palace Theatre, New York 1945
Vintage silver print
27,1 x 33,1 cm
Photographer‘s stamp and his New York studio stamp on the reverse
AUCTION: 21st November 2014
A copy of the 1946 publication Weegee’s People by the photographer Weegee, famed as much for his work as his zany personality, resides in the Art Directors Guild library. Once in the collection of the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Library in Culver City, it still has a checkout card from the MGM Reading Department attached to the endpaper. Neatly typed print shows it was checked out to several patrons over the years, including writer and producer Nat Perrin in 1946 and to a V. Minelli (MGM fixture Vincente Minnelli, likely) in 1952.
This picture was taken on the same day I agreed to switch from WDGY to KDWB. The flyer was made more to tweek WeeGee than to actually promote the move
By Weegee (Arthur Fellig), commissioned by Kubrick to document filming of Dr Strangelove.
From Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Taken from Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition (April to September 2019)
The exhibition tells the story of Stanley Kubrick the meticulous genius, exploring his unique command of the creative design process of film making, from storyteller to director to editor.
[Design Museum]
Donald Wightman 18, accused along with girlfriend Gladys MacKnight of killing Gladys' mother Helen. Bayonne, N.J. August 1, 1936. (A. Fellig photo)
This frame from Richard Kimbrough earned a first place vote.
Judge's comment (1st): Very nice moment of action and struggle captured with nice composition and crop. Very Weegee-like! Very cool!
"He will take his camera and ride off in search of new evidence that his city, even in her most drunken and disorderly and pathetic moments, is beautiful."
- William McCleery on Weegee, in 'Naked City'.
Photographer Nelson Bakerman took along his assistants for the Weegee Walk in the Bowery District, 3/9/12, where they recreated some of Weegee's famous photos
Weegee shows us the proper etiquette for holding miniature teacups. That's right, the pinky does not touch the cup.
Helen Levitt (1913-2009) was another New York City based photographer. She choose to photograph the children in her neighborhood, a world away from the hard edged NYC street pictures of Klein, Weegee and Winogrand. A personal favorite of mine is her circa 1942 portrait of three children on a stoop, all wearing masks. Many of her best pictures were taken in the early and middle 1940's. In 1943 she had a one woman show at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Edward Steichen. She was a photographer for nearly 70 years. She worked with James Agee on two motion pictures in the late 1940's, and remained active in films until 1972.
NOTE: An archival, signed, limited edition, matte C-print can be purchased at my eBay gallery store-
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@2009 David Lee Guss Homage, Helen Levitt, Halloween, Casa Grande, Arizona, 2005-2008