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Ink, watercolor, gouache in sketchbook. From a Weegee photo. This time I started with a pencil drawing, but I don't know if the drawing is better than the previous ones without.
This is an ornately decorated ram's skull from, I think, somewhere in Africa. It is in WEEGEE's collection, Espoo, Finland.
Artist || Weegee (1899 in Ukraine - 1968 in New York, USA)
Title || Waxey Gordon (c. 1941)
gelatin silver print
Exhibitor || Centre Pompidou
Exhibition || Corps à corps
Naked City by Weegee is a major publication in 20th century photography, dedicated to the residents of New York. This gallery of night-time scenes, taken on the fly by the photographer as he went between New York's streets, bars and cabarets in his car, fitted out as a photographic laboratory, paints a portrait of a dark city in perpetual movement. Working for newspaper PM Daily and constantly tuned to the police radio, he was aware of each crime scene and fire, armed with his night flash. In 1941, Weegee photographed Waxey Gordon, a famous American gangster who was very active during Prohibition. This portrait of the bootlegger hiding behind a hat exemplifies the photographer's furtive style.
CPP203