DIGITAL CASUALTY The digital era, with cameras that can download pictures onto computer screens, has dealt the death blow for a city photography store that depended on businesses, hobbyists and professionals using film. Hoyer's Photo Supply, 18 W. Fourth St. ‘Weegee’ at International Center of Photography – Review The tabloid crime photographer Weegee is the [...]
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Weegee’s Other Naked City Weegee, a tabloid photographer whose name is synonymous with New York, spent almost five years in Hollywood. Whether his work in southern California is groundbreaking – or just bizarre – it’s getting an appreciative second look.
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Lens Blog: Obscure Photographs of Los Angeles by Weegee Weegee, a tabloid photographer whose name is synonymous with New York, spent almost five years in Hollywood. Whether his work in southern California is groundbreaking – or just bizarre – it’s getting an appreciative second look. Boca man finds a picture-perfect way to help JARC Follow [...]
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Tom Teicholz: Through a Lens, Starkly: Weegee’s Naked Hollywood Weegee, “Liz,” ca. 1950, International Center of Photography, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993, © Weegee/International Center of Photography/Getty Images.
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Darkroom News November 19, 2011
Weegee’s Hollywood Iris Schneider: Riddle from the art world: Who was part huckster, part experimental trailblazer and part social commentator, lampooning society’s adoration of celebrity, but longing to be one at the same time? Go to MOCA and see.
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