First, relax your breathing, then brush aside the curtains in your mind.

A carelessly discarded cigarette led to a blaze which consumed the top two floors of the Greenhouse pub on College Green, Bristol. The resulting fire which started at approximately 3.30pm, required five crews to put it out.

Nobody was injured in the fire, however, the building suffered extensive damage.

Actually, I got there just after the fire crews arrived and before the police and the media. So, in a sense this is a first.

ICP Curator Kristen Lubben introduces "Magnum Contact Sheets"

Opening night for the "Magnum Contact Sheets" exhibition.

Finally, my first fish and chips in the UK. (Somehow I never managed to get one back in 2006)

drawing from "Weegee's Naked City" (02')

Delphine CINGAL (Paris 2-Panthéon-Assas): Representing forensic science: Reading corpses (Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Thorndyke, Kay Scarpetta and Temperance Brennan)

then Victoria LAURENT (Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse) : Weegee, between dramatization and manipulation of the crime scene.

Chair: Hamed Jendoubi

Luna Saturday, April 24, 2010, in Surfside, Fla.

weegee

dirty water hotdog vendor burns the kabob

pedestrian smacks the smoke

A bit like Weegee

Pauline Vermare, curator of the "Christer Stromholm: Les Amies de Place Blanche," with "Jacky". Photo by Benjamin Jarosch

St. Mark's Place, Nyc

ICP Curator Kristen Lubben leads a walkthrough of "Magnum Contact Sheets"

drawing from "Weegee's Naked City" (02')

A few more selections from our post card gallery. For more information here's a link to Every Picture Tells A Story. www.mindsimedia.info/SaleStuff/20thCentRetro/PostCards/We...

Homage / Homenaje / Homenaxe a Weegee

B/W PHOTO

B/N FOTO

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Inspired by the Weegee exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Chiaroscuro joins the fun in Weegee's Playhouse. Rock on!

35mm b&w gelatin silver print. Weegee reproduction project.

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.

weegee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photo from the Oct. 9 Memefactory at NYU - people get turned into WeeGees.

for more:

whateweknowsofar.com/memefactory

by Arthur Fellig aka Weegee. copyright International Center of Photography, NY.

Pigeon homicide, Weegee-style.