Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $2,680
3%  
Woo hoo!! 3rd Qtr 2025 FReepathon is now underway!!

Keyword: arthurfelig

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • A Seattle Man Discovered a Trove of Long-Lost Weegee Photos From 1937 in His Kitchen Cabinet

    05/27/2019 7:03:30 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 40 replies
    artnet.com ^ | May 23, 2019 | Sarah Cascone
    Back in the 1970s, David Young bought a box of 73 vintage news photographs at a Philadelphia second-hand store. This year, he pulled them out of the kitchen cabinet of his Seattle home, where they have been languishing for decades, and realized that they were all lost photos by the great crime photographer Weegee, New York magazine reports. Young reached out to Christopher Bonanos, Weegee‘s biographer, who quickly confirmed that the “A. Fellig” stamp and the handwriting on the back of the prints matched the artist’s. (Weegee’s real name is Arthur Felig.) Most of the photos were completely unknown before the discovery. None had...