Mark wrote:
> We occasionally talk about other forms of
> hardboiled. Well, when it
> comes to photography, the name of hardboiled
is
> Weegee.
On the same theme, Chicago's Terra Museum of American Art put
on an excellent exhibition this summer, New York Noir: Crime
Photos from the Daily News Archives. Seeing the actual
glistening b-and-w prints reinforced the impression that
certain of these newspaper photographers were true artists in
the matters of camera angles, light exposures, dramatic
composition, and so on. There is an accompanying catalogue
that reprints all the photographs in the show; however, the
brilliance does not always register on the page in the same
way. One would hope that some museum of photography could
make this a permanent exhibit.
Mark R. Harris
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