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Weegee
American (b. Poland, 1899-1968)

PUBLISHED TITLE: Tenement Penthouse
PUBLISHED TITLE: Heat Spell, May 23, 1941

May 23, 1941
gelatin silver print
38.4 x 49.5 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
GEH NEG: 42467
81:2075:0001

NON-GEH NUMBER: 8334-34
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Fellig, Arthur. --Naked City.-- New York: Essential Press, 1945.//
Fellig, Arthur. --Weegee by Weegee: An Autobiography.-- New York: DeCapo Press, 1975. unp.//
Fellig, Arthur. --Weegee.-- Millerton: Aperture, 1978. p. 79.//
Barth, Miles. --Weegee's World.-- Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown & Company, 1997. p. 46.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 618.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Weegee"

NOTES: Catalogued 9/93, DZ/DS, updated 9/2000. Published title from --Naked City--. Published title and date from --Weegee's World--.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, children
people, sleeping
animal, cats

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