WEEGEE (ARTHUR FELLIG) HANDWRITTEN LTR SIGNED PHOTOS FOR MAGAZINE & HIS FILMS - $450 - (Nokomis, FL)
PHOTOGRAPHER: WEEGEE (ARTHUR FELLIG) HANDWRITTEN LTR SIGNED, "Weegee", 2 pages, 5.5 x 7, 11/18/61, on Hotel La Louisiane, Paris letterhead, to Wilma Wilcox, about photos for a magazine and "important showing of my films Tuesday". Comes with the original envelope made out in his hand and signed "Weegee" in the return address. Both items in fine condition.Weegee (1899-1968) was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig a famous New York City photographer and photojournalist in the 1940's and 1950's known for his stark black and white street photography: images of murder, mayhem, dead gangsters, Harlem blacks, famous personalities, and other dramatic events. His career spanned four decades on both coasts as well as Europe. His images of dead gangsters and his own flamboyant personality established his reputation as New York's "crime photographer," a reputation and persona he nurtured. The New York Museum of Modern Art acquired some his photographs and many of his images have appeared in multiple books. In the 1950's and 1960's he experimented with photo distortions and photography through prisms (kaleidoscope) that created caricatured images.Wilma Wilcox was a Quaker social worker who Weegee lived with for over a decade before his death in 1968. She inherited his entire archive of original prints and subsequently donated them to the International Center for Photography on her death in 1993. #10732NO REASONALBLE OFFER REFUSED! PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR OFFER! THIS IS AN ORIGINAL HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPH. We do not sell reprints or facsimile autographs. This is our 31st year in business. We closed our retail galleries and now are totally internet sales oriented. We are a long-time member of UACC #RD338 and the Manuscript Society. Our collectibles make for fantastic additions to long standing collections, great starting points for new collectors looking for trusted authentic material, and make for a truly unique gifts for that special person in your life or corporate gift for a special cli…
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