📷 Weegee, Sammy’s on the Bowery, 1944 "One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images." - Susan Sontag - ThreadSky

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dean.bsky.social • 8 days ago

📷 Weegee, Sammy’s on the Bowery, 1944

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

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dean.bsky.social•8 days ago

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

dean.bsky.social•8 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•8 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•8 days ago

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

dean.bsky.social•8 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.

dean.bsky.social•8 days ago

Weegee was hired as a "special effects advisor" for Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick probably got some visual inspiration from some of the shots he took. Here is Peter Sellers as Group Captain Mandrake, in Weegee's patented distorted view.

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