Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Brooklyn Heights Blog’s Weegee and the coverage of the recent suicide on Hicks Street are the focus of an article in the Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. The piece, written by nabe journo Virginia Heffernan, documents her quest to find out what all the police activity was about around 166 Hicks Street on August 5. New [...]
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Weegee the Famous at home in New York, 1968 Bill Jay: Throughout my professional life as magazine editor, professor, and lecturer, I have been privileged to meet many of the most famous photographers of the era. Whenever I felt that the camera would not intrude or disrupt the situation I have made snapshots of these moments. The following "gallery" is a preliminary selection from the more than 1,000...
Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Just in case anyone missed it: Brooklyn Heights resident, news photographer, BHB contributor, and all around good egg, Marc “weegee” Hermann was on last Friday’s Homer Fink Radio Show, chatting about crime scenes, news photography, and, naturally, Weegee. There’s also a brief interview with the Fruit Dude on Henry Street: Tune in to the Homer Fink [...]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
BERLIN - The Helmut Newton Foundation presents approximately 350 B/W and color prints by Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Quinn, Angeli, Secchiaroli, Pigozzi and Newton, the exhibition presents the forerunners and central figures of the “classic” period of Paparazzi Photography - and provides a visual commentary about the evolution of this phenomenon.
mondomedeusah électronique (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
2008-06-20 until 2008-11-16 Helmut Newton Foundation Berlin, Brunei Darussalam With the current exhibition the "bad boys" of photography are the subject of an extensive show...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
“..I must admit, before meeting Tom, I had heard so many rumours and so much gossip that I was afraid. Frankly, his gambling debts, his animal magnetism, coupled with his disregard for the feelings of others… ..His elaborate gun collection, his mad shopping-sprees, the face-lifts, the ski trips, the drug busts and the hundreds of [...]
Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
In Weegee and Naked City (University of California Press, 2008), art historians Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer offer a new look at photojournalist Arthur Fellig, who documented so much of New York city life including crime scenes for the...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
REVIEW: There’s something a little out of focus about the Tate Modern’s sprawling new photography exhibition.
Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
The trunk is assumed to have once been the possession of Wilma Wilcox, a social worker who was Weegee’s companion and lived with him from 1957 until his death in 1968. Upon her death in 1993, she bequeathed the bulk of his work — thousands of prints and negatives — to the International Center of Photography in Manhattan. How the trunk full of prints and 62 letters to Ms. Wilcox from Weegee (born Usher...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
AnnaKustera 520 West 21st Street, 212-989-0082 Chelsea June 6 - July 3, 2008 Opening: Friday, June 6, 6 - 8PM Web Site Elmer Batters, Eric Kroll, Weegee If anyone could amass a fantastic collection of erotic photography, it would be the legendary Eric Kroll. A Los Angeles photographer who specializes in fetishistic erotica with a sense of humor, he is now exhibiting for the first time at the Anna...
Indy Star (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
A treasure trove of personal items from one of New York�s most iconic photographers has found a home in Indianapolis, by way of a Kentucky farmhouse.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
BERLIN, GERMANY - Helmut Newton Foundation presents “Pigozzi and the Paparazzi” with Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Angeli, Secchiaroli, Quinn and Newton, on view June 20th through November 16th, 2008. With the current exhibition the “bad boys” of photography are the subject of an extensive show for the first time in Germany. Paparazzi photography is an aggressive form of photojournalism, particularly...
Babylon Wales (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
In 1963 Weegee , creator of Naked City (1945), came to Cardiff to give a talk on his photographic technique. His lecture which was free to the public was held at the Royal Hotel on St Mary Street. At 7pm Weegee (real name Arthur Fellig) greeted his Welsh audience wearing a furry Russian hat. He had just returned from Moscow where he had been on an extensive lecture tour. Although famed for documenting...
My London (Free subscription) | 29/01/2008
* pix: Arthur Fellig (’Weegee’) French thinker and uncontested authority in photography and cinematography, Roland Barthes elaborated a theory on interpretation of photographs in his book Camera Lucida, a dominant reference for writers on photography with the title being obviously a word play on the earlier Camera Obscura. It is only with the advent of photography that [...]
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 13/01/2008
The fourth in our “Cult of Crime” series. (Pix by the one-and-only Weegee.) New York’s reputation as a tough city took a major hit in the summer of 2006 when it received the highest score of all the world's big cities in a courtesy test . Even worse, according London's Guardian, “ New York loses mean streets image as murder rate plunges .” In 2007, less than 500 people were killed, the fewest since...
