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WeegeeWeegee "Distortion: Stripes"1955
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Innovative, provocative, inimitable - these are just a few of the words to describe America's boldest photographer.
Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee (1899-1968) was a ground-breaking, successful (and notorious) photojournalist. His images shot on the streets of New York City are iconic and influential.
In the 1930s he became the first New York City press photographer to obtain permission to install a police radio in his car. This allowed him to follow the city's first responders and to document their duties; responding to fire, crime, debauchery and of course, murder.
By the early 1940s Weegee was experiencing fatigue with crime reportage. Ironically, this was also the point when he finally began experiencing professional validation and acclaim, to the point of being a minor celebrity. Notably in 1941 he was included in The MoMA's seminal "50 Photographs by 50 Photographers" (curated by Edward Steichen). The museum would also acquire five Weegee photographs for their nascent collection.
As the decade progressed Weegee's focus expanded, and one could argue that he began transitioning from a photojournalist to an artist.
"At Eddie Condon’s in Greenwich Village" is a fine example of his transitional work.
Eddie Condon was an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the Chicago jazz scene, he also played piano and sang in New York. For most of the 20th century, Greenwich Village was known as a trendy artists’ neighborhood known for its intimate bars and nightlife. Weegee loved the nightlife and had a regular circuit on the downtown bars, clubs and cabarets.
This photo is a paradigm of Weegee's eye for detail and composition. It is remarkably timeless and could easily be the 1940s or the 1970s or even today. Interestingly, Weegee would be commissioned by Vogue for a fashion editorial in 1945.
A print of this image is held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Weegee’s photography can be found in numerous museums and private collections worldwide: the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; International Center of Photography, New York and more.
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USA, circa 1945
Gelatin silver print
14"H 11"W (work)
20”H 16”W (sheet)
20.5"H 17.5"W (framed)
Weegee’s stamp and titled “Eddie Condons in the Village” in pencil (verso)
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- Creator:Weegee (1899-1968, American)
- Creation Year:1955
- Dimensions:Height: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Toronto, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 04-201stDibs: LU21526016622
Weegee
Arthur Fellig, who later assumed the pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, best known for his gritty black-and-white imagery taken on the streets of New York City. Born in 1899 in what is now the Ukraine, he arrived in the United States with his family in 1909, and settled in Brooklyn. After working in a variety of photography-related jobs, he struck out on his own at the age of 35 as a self-taught freelance photographer, selling his work to publications like the Herald Tribune, the Daily News, the Post, and the Sun. Weegee worked mostly at night, usually around Manhattan Police Headquarters. He was the only freelancer in New York to obtain permission to install a police radio in his car. As a result, he was often the first to arrive at the scene of the many crimes he photographed, often before the police themselves had responded. Moreover, he traveled with a makeshift darkroom in the trunk of his car, so he could produce, and then sell, his images faster than his competitors. But crime was not his only subject. He also photographed socialites at high-society events, circus performers, street life, tenement housing conditions, and many other facets of New York life. For a number of years he traveled extensively in Europe, and worked for the London Daily Mirror. He later returned to New York City, where he died in 1968. Th Museum of Modern Art began collecting his work in 1943, and featured it in several exhibitions. His work was also shown at the New York Photo League, and the International Center of Photography hosted a retrospective of his work in 1998. He has been featured in exhibitions at European venues such as the Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria's Flatz Museum, and the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow. Several monographs of his work have been published.
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The origins of his nick-name and reputation date back to the 1930s when he became the first New York City press photographer to obtain permission to install a police radio in his car. Following the city's first responders and documenting their duties, Weegee had unprecedented access to New York’s fires, crimes, debaucheries and of course, murders.
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