Research Catalog
The Weegee collection
- Title
- The Weegee collection / Weegee.
- Author
- Weegee, 1899-1968
- Publication
- [1940?]-1948.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Portfolio (Weegee) | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Description
- 3 items (one folder); 26 x 21 cm
- 3 photographic prints : gelatin silver, black and white ;
- Summary
- Depictions of African Americans in Harlem, New York, during the 1940s, consisting of a view of an arrested man and his female acquaintance in a police holding room, entitled "He Did the Killing" (ca. 1940); a view of residents wearing their best attire, entitled 'Easter Sunday in Harlem" (1940); and a view of some women at a music gathering, entitled "At a Concert in Harlem" (1948). The concert image is an enlarged portion of a larger group shot.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Group portraits – 1940-1949.
- Gelatin silver prints – 1940-1949.
- Note
- Title taken from folder.
- All photographs bear handwritten captions, including photographer's credit and image title, on verso; handwritten size dimensions do not match print in hand.
- Images captured between 1940 to 1948, and printed at undetermined later date.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Collection is under copyright; permission of the coplyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography (note)
- Weegee (Arthur Fellig), 1899-1968, born in what is now part of Ukraine, is an American photographer best known for his stark black and white images of crime scenes and urban life in Manhattan's Lower East Side during the 1930s and 1940s. Freelancing for a variety of New York City newspapers and press agencies, Weegee combined photography and text in a style that influenced what would later became known as tabloid journalism.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Portfolio (Weegee)
- OCLC
- 1277044150
- Author
- Weegee, 1899-1968, photographer.
- Title
- The Weegee collection / Weegee.
- Production
- [1940?]-1948.
- Type of Content
- still image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Terms Of Use
- Collection is under copyright; permission of the coplyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography
- Weegee (Arthur Fellig), 1899-1968, born in what is now part of Ukraine, is an American photographer best known for his stark black and white images of crime scenes and urban life in Manhattan's Lower East Side during the 1930s and 1940s. Freelancing for a variety of New York City newspapers and press agencies, Weegee combined photography and text in a style that influenced what would later became known as tabloid journalism.
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- Sc Photo Portfolio (Weegee)