Stanley Kubrick spent the late 40s & 50s as a photographer for Look magazine, which is when he met Weegee.
The future director did some film set work himself. Here's something from Weegee's wheelhouse: a shot from the TV series Paddy Wagon, 1948
The future director did some film set work himself. Here's something from Weegee's wheelhouse: a shot from the TV series Paddy Wagon, 1948
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- Christopher Bonanos
@heybonanos.bsky.social
The quote is from Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous. Naked Hollywood by Weegee is from 1953.
Both books highly recommended!
Winchell's blurb for Weegee's 1953 book Naked in Hollywood: "The candids of Louella and Hedda are belt-busters..."
Vegetable Dealer
1946
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"Through it all, he was a profound humanist & a compassionate observer of human beings, portraying them as innately tough, with the strength not only to survive but to flourish."
- Louis Stettner
Summer on the Lower East Side
1937
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Listening to Frank Sinatra, Palace Theater, 1944
So beautiful! For someone with such a brusque & matter-of-fact image, Weegee could come up with perfect, sensitive, graceful photographs.
Listen yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRud-fD5bE
New York, 1948