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Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh gave a large reception yesterday afternoon at their home, 10 East Sixty-second Street, for their house guest, Lady Decies, who arrived here on Friday on ...
Mar 15, 2019 · Flash: He caught Mrs. Kavanaugh and Lady Decies as the third woman observed them. Flash, again, a moment later, as the two ladies turned, passed him, and stepped into the lobby, facing half a ...
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- The Legacy of Weegee
Weegee was born Usher Fellig on June 12, 1899 near the city of Lemberg, Austria, what is today Zolochiv, Ukraine. Yet, his story begins once he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1909 at age 11. Upon arriving at Ellis Island, his name was immediately changed to the more American sounding Arthur. Like most immigrants, Arthur grew up ...
New York City in the mid-thirties, still in the grip of the Great Depression, was a tough place to earn a living. Prohibition had recently ended and rival gangs fought among themselves to maintain business. Newspapers sensationalized these "wars" to entertain the Depression era masses. They were constantly in need of pictures to visualize these sto...
Weegee's gregarious and flamboyant personality, dark sense of humor and odd behavior was as shocking as his pictures. Newspaper readers became eager to learn of the crime photographer's exploits due to the success of Naked City. The self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Photographer" happily obliged his readers, and staged photos of himself posing next...
Weegee used his lurid tabloid-style to create voyeuristic images of people at their most vulnerable. Paying particular attention to the outcasts and downtrodden, Weegee later inspired the brilliant Diane Arbus, who addressed in her work like Weegee, such themes as nudists, freaks, circus performers, and street people. Weegee, the American counterpa...
- June 12, 1899
- December 27, 1968
Sep 12, 2010 · In 1943, Mrs. Kavanaugh bought, for cash, the house next door, number 8, apparently to protect her property. The value of the combined properties that year was $211,000. Just as a point of reference, number 10 is currently valued at $22,500,000, and the far less grand number 8 at $2,160,000. Numbers 8 (center) and 10 (left) East 62nd Street.
Weegee Portfolio Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh and Lady Decies entering the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's Diamond Jubilee on November 22, 1943 "The ... [Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh and Lady Decies entering the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's Diamond Jubilee, New York] | International Center of Photography
LADY DECIES HONORED; Large Reception Given for Her by Mrs. George W. Kavanaugh. Give this article. May 12, 1939.
As I previously mentioned, Lord Decies died on January 31, 1944, shortly after the famous Weegee photograph was taken of Lady Decies and Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh. He died at his house in England, near Ascot. Since the war was still raging, and Lady Decies was in New York, she was not there at his death or funeral.
