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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
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]
Inside looking out.
The Futuro house is a failed dream of Finnish design. Contains many details that cry out NOT to be made of plastic. Quite creepy to spend a few minutes in.
Futuro 001
Futuro, or Futuro House, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance has made the houses popular among collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.
The WeeGee Exhibition Centre, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland is a cornucopia of museums, exhibitions and events, includes five museums, a modern art gallery, a café and three museum shops. This building, originally designed as a printing house by architect Aarno Ruusuvuori, has been transformed into a unique exhibition centre for culture and different events. It contains over 20'000 square metres of living culture, art, exhibitions and events.
Futuro 001 has been owned by TV celebrity Matti Kuusla since its manufacture. It is worth noting that despite the 001 numbering this was not the first Futuro manufactured - the prototype was numbered 000 and that Futuro has been fully restored and is on display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Futuro has spent its life on a lakeside property in Hirvensalmi where, mainly because it has never had an electrical supply, it has been only used in a very limited way.
Futuro 001
Futuro, or Futuro House, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance has made the houses popular among collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.
The WeeGee Exhibition Centre, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland is a cornucopia of museums, exhibitions and events, includes five museums, a modern art gallery, a café and three museum shops. This building, originally designed as a printing house by architect Aarno Ruusuvuori, has been transformed into a unique exhibition centre for culture and different events. It contains over 20'000 square metres of living culture, art, exhibitions and events.
Futuro 001 has been owned by TV celebrity Matti Kuusla since its manufacture. It is worth noting that despite the 001 numbering this was not the first Futuro manufactured - the prototype was numbered 000 and that Futuro has been fully restored and is on display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Futuro has spent its life on a lakeside property in Hirvensalmi where, mainly because it has never had an electrical supply, it has been only used in a very limited way.
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film. --Weegee
I obscured the face of this person, because they had some threatening words for me as he walked by, about taking photos of people on the street. Frankly, I have always felt conflicted about the debate over taking candid photos of people out in public. Both as a society and as individuals, I think we benefit from having to face uncomfortable, complicated issues, which are often only put before us effectively in the form of raw, unstaged, unaltered, documentary photography, film and video. On the other hand, I also firmly believe that ALL people, homed or otherwise, have a right to be out in public without the stress of constant monitoring and filming. In general, I avoid taking photos that focus on a specific individual in a way that could insult or damage that person. I'm not trying to focus on individuals in my street photos so much as how we interact or fail to interact as an interconnected group necessarily sharing space and resources. Or, often I'm simply taking a shot that I think/hope will years from now convey a little piece of the present moment in the manner that some of the greats of street and candid photography have; I'm thinking most of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee, Vivian Maier, Nan Goldin......
A restored model on display at the WeeGee Exhibition Centre in Espoo, Finland. Designed by Matti Suuronen, 1968.
I've always respected this gals approach to photography. She's always there at many social events, parades, etc, with a favorite point & shoot, and she gets the photos. When asked for photo advice, the famous photographer Weegee replied..."f8 and be there" (although many in the new era of photography probably have no idea what f8 means, but "be there" was the real message from Weegee). Pat Jolly is there.
On this particular night we had a brief conversation, and she told me that shortly before Mardi Gras, her point & shoot camera stopped functioning, so she was on the hunt for the same model...the fifth one she'd had. Unable to find one and panicking the day before Mardi Gras, she bought the much more professional camera she's holding in this photo. It was a busy night so we didn't chat for long...I hope she's comfortable with her new camera. 3-24-2007
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Another photo to go into my 'homage' project. My other photo I tried to make it look like I had been taken years age on a film camera, but on this one I wanted it to be in colour to enthasize the modern weegee feel I wanted it to have. Not sure if this is going to be my final image though!
Sketchblog: sharonfrost.typepad.com/day_books
King of the World: the ashes of Weegee, next to Monk.
7 x 7 in.; watercolor, ink, Derwent pencils on Stonehenge paper.
Handheld Graflex Speed Graphic 4X5
Graflex Optar 135mm
Kodak T-MAX 100-120 roll film
Calumet 6X7
Graflex 3-cell Flash w/Sylvania bulb
Scanner Microtek Artixscan M1
The standard "weegee" shot was:
4x5 Speed Graphic camera
preset at f/16, @ 1/200 of a second
with flashbulbs and a set focus
distance of ten feet....
Super Pan Press was rated ASA 125, and Super XX was ASA 100
Futuro 001
Futuro, or Futuro House, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance has made the houses popular among collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.
The WeeGee Exhibition Centre, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland is a cornucopia of museums, exhibitions and events, includes five museums, a modern art gallery, a café and three museum shops. This building, originally designed as a printing house by architect Aarno Ruusuvuori, has been transformed into a unique exhibition centre for culture and different events. It contains over 20'000 square metres of living culture, art, exhibitions and events.
Futuro 001 has been owned by TV celebrity Matti Kuusla since its manufacture. It is worth noting that despite the 001 numbering this was not the first Futuro manufactured - the prototype was numbered 000 and that Futuro has been fully restored and is on display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Futuro has spent its life on a lakeside property in Hirvensalmi where, mainly because it has never had an electrical supply, it has been only used in a very limited way.