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To: boop

make mine Weegee.

Agree about Adams - never really saw what the fuss was all about.


25 posted on 09/21/2012 9:55:41 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: warsaw44

Oh yeah, Weegee! I have his collection too. Can’t get any more raw than that. Great eye.


28 posted on 09/21/2012 10:21:04 PM PDT by boop (It's not personal...it's strictly business)
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To: warsaw44

There used to be a freeper named weegee. He was a huge fan, obviously. Hasn’t posted in over 3 years though.


29 posted on 09/21/2012 10:23:44 PM PDT by boop (It's not personal...it's strictly business)
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To: warsaw44

I know of two bodies of work from Weegee.

The best known one is of all those photos from both the top and the bottom of New York society.

The other is a collection of abstract shots featuring various optical distortions using mirrors and so forth. Some of these were published in the 50’s in Mechanix Illustrated.

I was amused by the X-Files story of a photographer with the uncanny, perhaps psychic ability to be on the scene of murders taking place in the seamy byways of New York City. They found evidence (ambiguous, as always) that the man might be very old, perhaps even immortal—until the very end of the story. The photographer’s name was “Andrew Felig.”


35 posted on 09/22/2012 12:38:07 AM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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