Weegee (arthur Fellig) Handwritten Note Signed London Paris Travel, Photography
WEEGEE (ARTHUR FELLIG) HANDWRITTEN NOTE SIGNED. "Love Weegee", on French travel postcard, 3.5 x 5.5, Oct 30, 1962, to Wilma Wilcox, about the photographers busy travels to Le Harve. He has also completed the addressing by hand. 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. 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. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPH. We do not sell reprints or facsimile autographs. 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.
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- Country/Region of Manufacture: France
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Profession: PHOTOGRAPHER
- Signed by: WEEGEE (ARTHUR FELLIG)
- Autograph Authentication: HISTORY MAKERS AUTOGRAPHS