Monthly Archives: December 2019

Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Christopher George

New Year’s Celebration VU, December 28, 1932 (2009.61.34) Bonne Année! Noël… Jour de l’an… la semaine des main tendues… des vœux… des étrennes… des cadeaux… Tous vous la souhaitent bonne et heuresuse. Photo Universal MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Weegee, … Continue reading →

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Weegee Covers Christmas in New York…

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Christopher George

PM, December 26, 1940 Weegee Covers Christmas in New York… In Pictures and Words by Weegee Early Christmas Eve I received a phone call from Wesley Price, one of PM’s picture editors. Price told me he wanted a good holiday … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Christopher George

Merry Xmas, “Little Willie” Littlefield, 1949 Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël, 1962 (22.2004) Santa Claus Blues, Clarence Williams’ Trio; Charley Straight; Gus Kahn, 1925 VU, photo by André Kertész, December 23, 1931, (2011.7.64) Let’s Make Christmas Merry, Baby, Amos Milburn … Continue reading →

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Color of the Year: Classic Cyanotype

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Christopher George

Helen Gale, Snapshots by Helen Gale, 1904-1906 (2009.32.13) Unidentified photographer, [Unidentified woman sitting on fallen tree in forest], ca. 1909 (1993.1.9) Unidentified photographer, Feeding the Squirrels, ca. 1908 (1993.1.2) Announcing the Color of the Year 2020: Classic Cyanotype. A timeless, … Continue reading →

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“An Affirmation of Life” 1945-46

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Christopher George

W. Eugene Smith, Marine Demolition Team Blasting Out a Cave on Hill 382, Iwo Jima, March 1945 (2008.55.9) Life’s Cover The scene of demolition on Iwo Jima symbolizes the saga of battle that in years to come will take on … Continue reading →

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“Hospital on Leyte,” November 1944

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Christopher George

W. Eugene Smith, A Hospital in a Philippine Cathedral (Island of Leyte), 1944 (2008.55.3) In their church which has become hospital, barefoot Filipino women worship only a few feet from the expressionless mask of a burned American officer. Life, December … Continue reading →

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Ken Heyman (1930-2019)

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Christopher George

Ken Heyman (1930-2019), [Newark, New Jersey], ca.1969 (2013.107.34) Ken Heyman (1930-2019), [Man and child in window, Ghana], 1968 (2013.107.31) Ken Heyman (1930-2019), [Egypt], 1964 (2013.107.30) Ken Heyman (1930-2019), [Nigerian Family, Nigeria], 1959 (2007.90.44) Ken Heyman (1930-2019), [Brazil], 1959 (2013.107.29) Ken … Continue reading →

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Photogenic

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Christopher George

Lotte Jacobi, Photogenic, “silverlining,” 1950 (50.1986) “I take a piece of photo-sensitive paper and draw on it…” Lotte Jacobi and Margaretta K. Mitchell, 1979. Between 1946 and 1955 Lotte Jacobi made a series, “Photogenics,” of photograms. Lotte Jacobi spoke with … Continue reading →

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“America is my home.”

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Christopher George

Weegee, [Schoolchildren evacuated from classroom for New York’s first air-raid alarms of World War II], December 10, 1941 (2406.1993) PM, December 10, 1941, p.16 New York Has Its First Air-Raid Alarms, But the Enemy Fails to Make Appearance A million … Continue reading →

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“A New Method of Realizing the Artistic Possibilities of Photography”

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Christopher George

Vanity Fair, November 1922, p. 50 (2011.34.1) Vanity Fair, November 1922, p. 50 (2011.34.1)

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