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Weegee : the New York night show
From January 30, 2024 to May 19, 2024, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is presenting Autopsie du spectacle : an exhibition of the work of the American photographer Weegee. It is a look back at the first part of his career, depicting a certain aspect of New York nights in the thirties : crimes, accidents, fires and other…
After working for several years at ACME Newspictures, a stock photography agency for the daily press in the USA, Weegee decided to embark on a freelance career to become the only signatory and owner of his photos. For some fifteen years, Weegee sold her photos to various American press chains: Herald Tribune, The Daily Mirror, New York Daily News, Life, Vogue, Sun...
Self-Portrait, Weegee with Speed Graphic Camera, 1950
His favorite subject between 1935 and 1945 was the briefs and New York’s nightlife. Weegee had a radio in his car tuned to police frequencies, so he was alerted at the same time as the cops when a tragedy occurred somewhere. First to arrive, he would capture the action and drama at its most dramatic moment, not hesitating to photograph any moment that seemed the most spectacular: fights, fires, drownings, crimes, arrests, etc. These photographs permitted him to become famous in the sphere of photojournalism (especially that at this time tabloids were on the rise!). Readers wanted to read spectacular, entertaining and sensational things. Weegee confides: "Murders and fires were my two bestsellers, my bread and butter".
Anthony Esposito, Accused 'Cop Killer,' January 16, 1941
New York tenement fire, NYC, 1937
“Joy of Living", chronicles a hit and run death outside a Third Avenue movie theater, 1942
In a way, Weegee was photographing the America of growing urbanization and the years following the stock market crash. They reveal the violence, the poverty, but also the dilapidated appearance of the city and its buildings. As an example, Weegee devotes a series to the fires that regularly ravage the scruffy buildings, spectacularly showing the dark side of this hyperurbanization.
Through his media coverage of New York's dark side, Weegee also analyze the situation in the opposite side by photographing the crowd that scrutinizes the events. He photographed the faces of indiscreet observers who, like him, went to the scene of scandal or drama to see it with their own eyes. As the exhibition’s title, Autopsie du spectacle, states it, Weegee shows us curiosity, which could sometimes be described as voyeuristic... A form of real-life transposition of the public's interest in Weegee's tabloid photos.
Drowning victim, Coney Island, 1940
Some of Weegee's works turn this aspect of the work on its head: he no longer takes photos of onlookers, but becomes one himself, taking photos of people without their knowledge. In particular, he takes a series of photos of concert halls or cinema using infrared filters. The grain of these obscure scenes and the instantaneous aspect allow him to capture the moments and expressions of people in a spontaneous way. However, it seems important to raise the ethical question raised by such a practice: catching people in intimate moments, sometimes sexual, sometimes dramatic, sometimes shameful...
Lovers at the movies, Palace Theatre New York, 1945
I hope I've convinced you to go and see this great exhibition, which looks back at the singular, daring and aesthetically Weegee photographs. His work provides an original point of view of New York in the middle of the 20th century and presents a social critique of the society of spectacle, to which he himself sometimes seems to belong.
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