Weegee @ Steven Kasher Gallery

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WEEGEE: Naked City

 

January 12, 2012 – February 25, 2012

Opening Reception: January 12, 6-8pm


Steven Kasher Gallery

New York

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Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to present Weegee: Naked City in conjunction with two major specifically-focused Weegee exhibitions, Weegee: Naked Hollywood at MoCA and Weegee: Murder is My Business at the ICP. With over 125 Weegee prints we explore the full emotional and satirical and aesthetic ranges of Weegee’s photographs of New Yorkers and other urbanites. The exhibition features multiple prints from each of Weegee’s basic subjects: Song and Dance, Drink, Party, Spectacle, Circus, Love and Sex, Crime and Disaster, Citizens, Celebrity, Art and Weegee Himself. The exhibition will also feature audio and film recordings of Weegee’s voice, one of the great guttural Jewish New Yorkese hybrids of spoken English… [continue reading]


Ball at Astor, ca. 1945


Transvestite in a Police Van, 1941


“This Sign, Advertising a Short Cut to Beauty, Blinked Two Stories Above the Fire”, September 2, 1941


Self-Portrait, ca. 1950 c


Bowery Savings Bank, 1944






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