During most of his career, Weegee (Arthur Fellig) used Speed Graphics
and almost all his most famous images were produced with that
equipment. Sometimes he used a Rolleiflex with a Rolleikin installed
to take unobtrusive pix with infra-red coated flashbulbs on IR film.
Some of these photographs wound up in his books, "Naked City" and
"Weegee's Camera." Look for kids at a Saturday matinee movie house and
after dark views of lovers and others in intimate street scenes.
Later, Weegee abandoned the press camera for a Nikon rangefinder (S2, I
think) and eventually one of the DDR SLRs, Pentacon or Praktina,
something like that He used 35 mm and dime store prisms for his photo
caricatures.
Although we never met, I knew Weegee's ex-wife in Los Angeles.
Sometimes she talked about him and his work. He was an interesting
guy, an original.
Allen Zak
On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
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The only Weegee at work image I ever saw must have been early -- he wasI don't think Weegee ever used anything but a Speed Graphic. This was the defacto standard tool for press work for about three decades. Somewhere, in an article, Weegee recommended the S.G. with a Kodak Ektar on it. Evedently, he knew lenses.
holding a Speed and a screw-in bulb flash.
Peter Nebergall
Some of the prints in the exhibt are orginals but half or more are reprints made about 1960 for a book. They are mostly 11x14. Most of the originals are also of this size. I always associated 8x10 glossies with news work but evidently PM, the paper Weegee was working for in the 1940's liked larger prints to make their plates from.
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