📷 Weegee, New York, 1942 "There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera." - Susan Sontag - ThreadSky

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dean.bsky.social • 5 days ago

📷 Weegee, New York, 1942

"There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera."
- Susan Sontag

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dean.bsky.social•5 days ago

📷 Weegee, Sammy’s on the Bowery, 1944

"One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images."
- Susan Sontag

dean.bsky.social•5 days ago

Weegee
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
c. 1942
Museum of Modern Art

dean.bsky.social•5 days ago

📷 Bette Davis by Weegee, 1950

"Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art & the magic of the real."
- Susan Sontag

dean.bsky.social•5 days ago

Lots of great pictures & stories from Weegee's time as a still photographer on the set of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, 1963. Though he already had a photographer in place (Bob Penn is credited), Kubrick wanted his old friend on set, as a "talisman".

https://straight.com/movies/394076/kubrick-weegee-and-strangelove-meet-again

dean.bsky.social•5 days ago

Peter Sellers & Stanley Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove, 1963. A great shot by The Famous Weegee. 🎬

dean.bsky.social•5 days ago

Weegee takes a flash photo of Tracy Reed on the Dr. Strangelove set. The presence of a brash street photographer probably helped Reed & George C. Scott develop their performances & contributed to Dr. Strangelove's special style.

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