Thanks Mark. Thoroughly enjoyed the Chrysler Museum website
and the article.
Kerry
Mark Sullivan wrote:
> We occasionally talk about other forms of
hardboiled. Well, when it
> comes to photography, the name of hardboiled is
Weegee.
>
> Here's his description of his world:
>
> "Life was like a timetable, tragic, but on schedule,
with little bits of
> comedy relief interspersed among the
crimes.
>
> "From midnight to one . . . peeping toms on the
rooftops and fire
> escapes of nurses' dormitories . . . From one to two
o'clock, stick-ups
> of the still-open delicatessens . . . From two to
three auto accidents
> and fires . . . At four o'clock, things became
livelier. At that hour
> the bars closed, and the boys were mellowed by
drinks."
> A new Weegee show hanging in the Chrysler Museum of
Art in Norfolk, VA,
> was written up in the Washington Post this morning.
It can be read at:
>
>
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25209-2001Aug31.html
>
> The museum also has a website, on which you can
build your own crime
> scene:
>
> www.chrysler.org/weegee/
>
> Mark
>
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