hmmmm.....there was an old dude who traveled the world in his Model A Ford with his wife shooting pictures back in the 40's 50's......the car was modified to hold all his gear, provide sleeping quarters, etc....had about a million miles on it. Now all I have to dig through my collection of 300 old Popular Mechanics to find the article..... .
Photo of my father (crouching) and his friend on their way to Mexico. My father was a photographer his entire life.
Kevin, that is a fantastic shot. Thanks. Ok to completely steal this thread from Big Al. Who is this photographer? And can you identify his car? He would shoot his photos and develop them right in his car and write the articles. Slim
I have no clue... but I want to know! Kirk, I doubt it's Ryan. That man in the photo is too low tech. I couldn't picture Ryan blogging with a typwriter... hahaha.
Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), an Austrian-born American photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. In 1938, Fellig was the only New York newspaper reporter with a permit to have a portable police-band shortwave radio. He maintained a complete darkroom in the trunk of his car, to expedite getting his free-lance product to the newspapers. Weegee worked mostly at nightclubs; he listened closely to broadcasts and often beat authorities to the scene. He is best known as a candid news photographer whose stark black-and-white shots do***ented street life in New York City. Weegee's photos of crime scenes, car-wreck victims in pools of their own blood, overcrowded urban beaches and various grotesques are still shocking, though some, like the juxtaposition of society grandes dames in ermines and tiaras and a glowering street woman at the Metropolitan Opera (The Critic, 1943), turned out to have been staged. yeah, he took these. sigh
I read his autobiography -- very interesting. He originally was trained as a concert pianist. He hands weren't big enough so he turned to photography. He may have only taken one negative of each shot, but sometimes there were many, many prints before he was happy.
There was also a good movie done about him (Weegee)..no not the Hollywood one. I used to show it to my students a lot. When we studied that era of photography. His nickname was based on the fact that he often beat the cops to the crime scene so they thought he was using a Ouija Board, but couldn't spell it, so it became Weegee.
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