Monthly Archives: June 2018

summer summer

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Christopher George

Lou Bernstein, Coney Island, 1951 (78.1992) Unidentified Photographer, [Two unidentified girls, one eating watermelon, the other disrobing], ca. 1960 (2012.24.1) The rich history of snapshot photography has yet to be written. But when that text is transcribed it will finally … Continue reading →

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The sun

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Christopher George

Cynthia Farnell, Steeple, Horry County, South Carolina, 2010 (2010.76.2) Weegee, [Empire State Building, New York], ca. 1955 (3378.1993) Weegee, Statue of Liberty, ca. 1961 (5916.1993) Charles H. Traub, Queensbridge Park, New York, 1988 (446.1991) Wu Yinxian, Afterglow, Guangxi, 1965 (167.1988) … Continue reading →

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged 1965, 1967, 1988, 2010, Charles H. Traub, Cynthia Farnell, Empire State Building, Ernst Haas, Manhattan, New York, New York City, Queens, South Carolina, Statue of Liberty, summer, summer solstice, sun, Weegee, Wu Yinxian | Leave a comment

Summer solstice

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Christopher George

Wu Yinxian, Fisherman’s evening song, Guangxi, 1982 (177.1988) Harold Feinstein, Twin Delaware Sun, New Hope, Pa., 1963 (592.1982) Vitaly Butyrin, Young World, 1983 (1092.1986) Vitaly Butyrin, Requiem in Memoriam of V.S., 1983 (1089.1986) Soichi Kiyooka, Nikko, Tochigi, 1974 (21.1994) Paul … Continue reading →

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged 1963, 1978, 1982, 1983, Harold Feinstein, Paul Caponigro, Pennsylvania, Stonehenge, summer, summer solstice, sun, Vitaly Butyrin, Wu Yinxian | Leave a comment

Summer School

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Christopher George

Two Summer Sessions of the School of Design in Chicago L. Moholy-Nagy, Director 247-257 East Ontario St. Summer Sessions June 22- August 1 Aims: The School of Design in Chicago is a non-profit corporation for the training of creative workers … Continue reading →

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged 1942, Bauhaus, Chicago, education, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, school, School of Design, summer | Leave a comment

Clemens Kalischer (1921-2018)

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Christopher George

Clemens Kalischer, [Male arrives from Europe at New York pier, greeted by woman], 1948 (2011.31.2) In 1947 and 1948, still in his 20s, Mr. Kalischer managed to embed himself with refugees uprooted by World War II as they arrived in … Continue reading →

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Fathers and children… mostly at Coney Island

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Christopher George

Lou Bernstein, Father and child, Coney Island, 1943 (84.1992) Harold Feinstein, Father and daughter on beach, Coney Island, 1950 (568.1982) Sidney Kerner, Father and son, Coney Island, 1937 (150.2003) Harold Feinstein, Boy on father’s shoulders, Coney Island, 1948 (556.1982) Dennis … Continue reading →

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged 1948, 1950, Coney Island, Dallas, Dennis Stock, father's day, Harold Feinstein, Lou Bernstein, New York, New York City, Sidney Kerner, Texas, tintype, unidentified photographer | Leave a comment

Four by Freund: James Joyce in Paris, 1938

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Christopher George

Gisele Freund, Joyce is often found here in the famous little bookshop of Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company. Here we see him having a chat with Sylvia Beach, who published [on February 2, 1922] the first edition of Ulysses in … Continue reading →

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“Weegee Lives For His Work And Thinks Before Shooting”

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Christopher George

PM, March 9, 1941 , pp. 48-51 Weegee Lives For His Work His Work And Thinks Before Shooting By Ralph Steiner Many people have asked me to write a piece about Weegee, the free-lance crime photographer whose pictures and stories … Continue reading →

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David Douglas Duncan (1916-2018)

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Christopher George

David Douglas Duncan, Through the mountains: Allied evacuation of Hungnam, Korea, 1950 (1984.2005) David Douglas Duncan, Some of the Marines on the march down the alley, plodding along with sleeping bags wrapped around them in an attempt to get a … Continue reading →

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Weegee Himself

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Christopher George

Weegee, [Weegee gets a tip from a PM news seller, New York], ca. 1941 (19644.1993) INTRODUCTION Let’s talk about that name first. Or, rather, those three names. Usher Fellig was a greenhorn, a hungry shtetl child from eastern Europe who … Continue reading →

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