Weegee

Weegee | International Center of Photography

A woman in a space helmet smoking a cigarette, 1950. Photo by Weegee.

“Woman With Crow, the Limelight Cafe, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1950s. Photo by Weegee.”

Weegee, Under the Third Avenue El, 1943-1945.

Woman holding a telephone receiver perhaps at a party in Greenwich Village

Weegee was the great photographer of New York in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, whose book Naked City helped to create the mythology of the city.

The exhibition at the Huntingdon Library in San Marino, California, brings together artists such as Walker Evans, Torkel Korling and George Bellows working in various media and spanning over a century

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Salvador Dali original Weegee gelatin silver bromide print. Surreal, mirrored portrait of the painter, likely to originate from a Paris shoot. 1960