Re: Weddings & IR flash

[Nick Cuccia <cuccia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Aug 1996 19:06:03 +0100  Robert Long wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Aug 1996 14:48:43 +0100, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
>> |On 17 Aug 96 at 15:51, Edward Meyers wrote:
>> |> Weegee was a famous IR flasher. Remember the flash IR shots that
>> |> he made inside a theatre? Ed
>> |Nope, never heard of him....8-))
>> |Any book or web references for this man?

Check out:

        http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/weegeeGIF.html

which docoments a show of Weegee's work at Brown University in early 1995, and
includes a few of his images.

>> Weegee was a photographer for the New York Daily News, I believe
>> (Newhall isn't specific), and was famous for his often sensational
>> grab shots--many (including the one in Newhall) with flash.  I believe
>> he used Speed Graphics.

Weegee worked for Acme Newspictures (the original name of UPI's photo arm)
from about 1923 to 1935.  At that point, he became a free-lancer, with images
published in everything from dailies and tabloids to _Life_, _Look_, and
_Vogue_.

He also served as an advisor on special effects to Stanley Kubrick for _Dr.
Strangelove_.

Speed Graphics were his weapon of choice.

--Nick

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