Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (1899-1968 ) Movie... - Lot 124 - Ader

Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (1899-1968 ) Movie Theater. New York, 1943-1950. Two (2) vintage silver prints, mounted on a master page, annotated by Weegee "Sleep. The best night to go is Monday. That's the night the bed sheets are changed. Stamp "A P.I.P. Photo by" on the backs of the prints. Handwritten annotation "Movie Theatre" and numbers "48" on the back of the sheet. Images: 20.3 x 18.3 and 16.8 x 21.1 cmSheets : 23 x 19.3 and 18.3 x 21.8 cmBibliography : Diana Ramirez Jasso, The Aesthetics of Concealment: Weegee in the Movie Theater (1943-1950), Master of Science in Architecture Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2002. During the second half of the 1940s, Weegee made a series of images in New York movie theaters using film that was sensitive to infrared light . Exploiting this part of the light spectrum, invisible to the human eye but printing the photographic surface, allows the shooting in a context of low light. The photographer is thus able to surprise scenes and behaviors, normally impossible to discern in the darkness of the room. Whether it is with the flash, which he used on crime scenes, or as here, with the help of specific films, Weegee gives to see what is usually hidden from the eye. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (1899-1968) Movie Theater. New York, 1943-1950. Two vintage gelatin silver prints, mounted on a master page, annotated by Weegee "Sleep. The best night to go is Monday. That's the night the bed sheets are changed". Stamp "A P.I.P. Photo by" on versos of the prints. Handwritten annotation "Movie Theatre" and numbers "48" on verso of sheet. Images: 20.3 x 18.3 and 16.8 x 21.1 cmPapers : 23 x 19.3 and 18.3 x 21.8 cm