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More information about Weegee's photo journalistic career can be found at this weblink
The SLR is a Zenit 3M
The hot weather last night took Ceegee, the photographer, to Murray Hill, where he found this book sleeping on a tenement fire escape... Ceegee says he gave the book $2 for ice cream. But the owner of the book took charge of the dough...
This is a glitch, the built-in flash shoots a rectangle of light and I was unable to highlight Daan, wich was the intended subject..
But it explains another concept of the action-based composition:
It's not only a matter of geometric division of the picture plane , but a three-dimensional division: The first plane is in this case of no interest and meant again to give a clue to the story or a general idea of what's going on, the subject in a second plane farther away and the the background.
The perfect shot would have been with the subject illuminated and the first plane out of focus, but I was shooting AF and also with automatic aperture for speeds sake.
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
From Finnish Toy Museum, Mission in Space exhibition. Exhibition ending soon, so be quick to visit there if you miss your childhood scifi toys :)
++There's no corrosion on the contacts inside the flash battery tube, but there is evidence that at one time one cell leaked a bit.
Oh! A Super neat old medium format view/press camera: Busch Pressman 2-1/4x3-1/4, along with a Heiland flash in great shape (the original Light Sabre was made from one of these!).
Everything works. The camera's in lovely shape, with smooth motions, rangefinder coupling (RF windows need cleaning but I do believe it's functioning and with correct lens). Everything locks down tight and the bellows seem to be tight and supple, not creased or buckled. Shutter seems to operate right (to my ear) and the glass is clean and clear. The rollfilm adapter is a wonderful piece of mechanical stuffness. I think you could load this thing up with film today, get some batteries and bulbs for the flash, and to make like Weegee tonight.
This thing is so sweet… it's hard to imagine NOT wanting to have one just around. But I have a 4x5 Busch that fills that duty and gets shot once in a while.
Court Tavern, and the Van Cleef Band
Taken with a Crown Graphic, Nikkor-w 135 f/5.6, Metz flash. Tri-X 320.
St. Patrick's day in New Brunswick.
Taken with a Crown Graphic, Nikkor-w 135 f/5.6, Metz flash. Tri-X 320.
St. Patrick's day in New Brunswick.
Taken with a Crown Graphic, Nikkor-w 135 f/5.6, Metz flash. Tri-X 320.
St. Patrick's day in New Brunswick.
Taken with a Crown Graphic, Nikkor-w 135 f/5.6, Metz flash. Tri-X 320.
Weight Watcher Recipe Cards
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]
Court Tavern, and the Van Cleef Band
Taken with a Crown Graphic, Nikkor-w 135 f/5.6, Metz flash. Tri-X 320.