Monthly Archives: December 2011

Uranium Robots

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

Les Krims, Untitled, from the Uranium Robots series, 1976 Buffalo-based photographer Les Krims held a robot suit building contest in 1976, which was inspired by Japanese toy robots and cartoons he saw when he visited the country two years earlier. … Continue reading →

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Pocket Photographs: The Carte-de-Visite Revisited

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

Abraham Bogardus, Jubilee Singers, ca. 1876 Mathew B. Brady; published by E. & H.T. Anthony and Co., [Edwin Booth and his daughter Edwina], 1865 Broadbent & Phillips, [Unidentified Union Soldier], ca. 1862-65 Charles Eisenmann, The Original Eliophobus Family: Rudolph Lucasie, … Continue reading →

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Robert Mapplethorpe’s Christmas Tree

Posted on December 25, 2011 by

Robert Mapplethorpe, [Christmas Tree], 1987

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Where’s Weegee?! Smash-up Edition

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

Three car crashes. Very few clues. Does anyone recognize the location of these fender-manglers? Leave a comment or email espindel (at) icp.org! Weegee, Crash, 1942-44 Maybe Tudor City? Weegee, [Car crash], 1940s Weegee, Girl jumped out of car, and was … Continue reading →

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Gold (in Silver)… part 2

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Margaret Bourke-White, South Africa – Mining recruits are fingerprinted, the tribesman’s way of signing contract as a gold miner. These Natives, Pondos from the southeast, are signed up by National Recruiting Corporation official after quick oral reading of the contract. … Continue reading →

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Where’s Weegee?!

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

Here at ICP we’re full-on in preparation for our upcoming Weegee exhibition. As part of that preparation, we’ve been working hard to identify the precise location where several of Weegee’s photographs were taken. For a few of these, though, we … Continue reading →

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Fame: Celebrity, Photography, and the Deconstruction of an Archetypical Icon?

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

Weegee, Marylin Monroe, ca. 1952 Richard Avedon, [Contact sheet of Marilyn Monroe posing with dog], 1958 Richard Avedon, [Contact sheet of Marilyn Monroe posing with dog], 1958 Martin Munkacsi, [Jean Harlow, Hollywood], ca. 1937 Weegee, [Movie star signing autographs at … Continue reading →

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Splendor in the Grass

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

Robert Capa, [Workers on a lunch break during a strike, Saint-Ouen, near Paris], May or June 1936 Robert Capa took this photograph in an industrial suburb of Paris during the strikes that rocked the country in the spring of 1936. Following … Continue reading →

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Pearl Harbor

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

Movietone News, “When ‘Arizona’s’ magazines exploded there was a roar that could be heard for miles. Then she was still,” December 7, 1941 Kelso Daly, “Brought from his bed by the thunder of exploding bombs, this pajama-clad islander has rushed … Continue reading →

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Gold (in Silver), Part 1

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Richard Tepe, Goldfasan Hahn (Gold Pheasant Hen), ca. 1910-40 Voila, “La guerre de l’or,” December 7, 1935 Weegee, “Charged with murdering his wife, Abraham Gold…”, November 22, 1944 “Charged with murdering his wife, Abraham Gold was arraigned yesterday… and held … Continue reading →

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