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WEEGEE (ARTHUR FELLIG) HANDWRITTEN LTR SIGNED TWICE, "Weegee" and "Love Weegee", 2 pages back to back, 5.5 x 8, Monday, May 20, c 1962, probably to Wilma Wilcox, on Mapleton Hotel, London letterhead, about newassignment and equipment needed. In part: "...Looks like the Shell Oil deal, may come through...my SPECIAL neg. carriers, Enlarging lenses...some close-up lenses marked 1-2-3...also the holders for these...." In fine condition.
Weegee(1899-1968) was the pseudonym ofArthur Felliga famousNew York Cityphotographer and photojournalist in the 1940's and 1950's known for his stark black and white street photography: images of murder, mayhem, dead gangsters, Harlem blacks, famous personalities, and other dramatic events. His career spanned four decadeson both coasts as well asEurope. His images of dead gangsters and his own flamboyant personality established his reputation asNew York's "crime photographer," a reputation and persona he nurtured.The New York Museum of Modern Artacquired some his photographs and many of his images have appeared in multiple books. In the 1950's and 1960's he experimented with photo distortions and photography through prisms(kaleidoscope)that created caricatured images.
Wilma Wilcoxwas a Quaker social worker who Weegee lived with for over a decade before his death in 1968. She inherited his entire archive of original prints and subsequently donated them to theInternationalCenterfor Photography on her death in 1993. #10743
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