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The Critic
New York socialites Marie Miller Kavanaugh (1867 - 1954) (more commonly referred to as Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh) and Lady Decies (1868 - 1944) (Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Lehr) arrive at the New York Metropolitan opera, laden with jewels, as a vagabond woman scowls at them, New York, New York, November 23, 1943

Print from Weegee Portfolio
Exhibition Print based on the 1982 prints by Sid Kaplan,
printed 1992. Produced for Amber Film & Photography Collective, Newcastle upon Tyne


Arthur (Usher) Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City.
Weegee worked in Manhattan's Lower East Side as a press photographer during the 1930s and 1940s and developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity.[2] Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. 
He worked at night and competed with the police to be first at the scene of a crime, selling his photographs to tabloids and photographic agencies.[5] His photographs, centered around Manhattan police headquarters, were soon published by the Daily News and other tabloids, as well as more upscale publication such as Life magazine.
Most of his notable photographs were taken with very basic press photographer equipment and methods of the era, a 4×5 Speed Graphic camera preset at f/16 at 1/200 of a second, with flashbulbs and a set focus distance of ten feet.[11] He was a self-taught photographer with no formal training.

Five of his photographs were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1943. These works were included in its exhibition Action Photography.[21] He was later included in "50 Photographs by 50 Photographers", another MoMA show organized by photographer Edward Steichen,.

Naked City (1945) was his first book of photographs. Film producer Mark Hellinger bought the rights to the title from Weegee.[21] In 1948, Weegee's aesthetic formed the foundation for Hellinger's film The Naked City. It was based on a gritty 1948 story written by Malvin Wald about the investigation into a model's murder in New York.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Weegee experimented with panoramic photographs, photo distortions and photography through prisms. Using a plastic lens, he made a famous photograph of Marilyn Monroe in which her face is grotesquely distorted yet still recognizable.
Weegee can be seen as the American counterpart to Brassaï, who photographed Paris street scenes at night. Weegee's themes of nudists, circus performers, freaks and street people were later taken up and developed by Diane Arbus in the early 1960s.





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Gered Mankowitz (attribuée à) - Jimi Hendrix Londres 1967

Angelo Frontoni (attribuée à) - Claudia Cardinale 1965

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Krahnert (German, act. c.1940) / UFA - Elfie Mayerhofer (1917–1992, Austrian actress), 1939

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Massimo Forchino - Peter Tosh - Torino 1980

André Villers (1930-2016) - Pablo Picasso en toreador, Vallauris, 1954

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Manuel Litran (attribuée à) - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg 1979

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Ernst Baumann (German, 1906–1985) / UFA - Hilde Weißner (1909–1987, German actress), 1939

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