Weegee
Summer on the Lower East Side
1937
@metmuseum.org
Summer on the Lower East Side
1937
@metmuseum.org
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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
And Weegee returns the favour in a nice portrait of Halsman.
Two photographers who fooled around a lot could get serious when they wanted to.
James Dean in Greenwich Village, c. 1955
This shot says a lot about Weegee. He's not immune to celebrity, but he was more interested in the human interest of the hug.