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Feb 1, 2018 · English: This category includes photos of people taken in 1899 and images of people in 1899. See also categories: 1899 births and 1899 deaths. Subcategories. This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total. 1899 cartoons (4 C, 155 F) 1899 portraits (5 C, 19 F) 1899 paintings of people (1 C, 33 F)
1899 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 899th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of ...
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1899 Louis Boutan: Banyuls-sur-Mer, France First underwater portrait, and the first taken by a camera designed for underwater photography.
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The origin of Fellig's pseudonym is uncertain. One of his earliest jobs was in the photo lab of The New York Times, where (in a reference to the tool used to wipe down prints) he was nicknamed "squeegee boy". Later, during his employment with Acme Newspictures, his skill and ingenuity in developing prints on the run (e.g., in a subway car) earned h...
Photographic technique
Most of his notable photographs were taken with very basic press photographer equipment and methods of the era, a 4×5 Speed Graphic camera preset at f/16 at 1/200 of a second, with flashbulbs and a set focus distance of ten feet. He was a self-taught photographer with no formal training. He is often said—incorrectly—to have developed his photographs in a makeshift darkroom in the trunk of his car.While Fellig would shoot a variety of subjects and individuals, he also had a sense of what sold...
Late 1930s to mid-1940s
In 1938, Fellig became the only New York freelance newspaper photographer with a permit to have a portable police-band shortwave radio. Weegee worked mostly at night; he listened closely to broadcasts and often beat authorities to the scene. Five of his photographs were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1943. These works were included in its exhibition Action Photography. He was later included in "50 Photographs by 50 Photographers", another MoMA show organized by photographer Ed...
1950s and 1960s
Weegee experimented with 16mm filmmaking himself beginning in 1941 and worked in the Hollywood industry from 1946 to the early 1960s, as an actor and a consultant. He was an uncredited special effects consultant and credited stills photographer for Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. His accent was one of the influences for the accent of the title character in the film, played by Peter Sellers. In the 1950s and 1960s, Weegee experi...
Weegee can be seen as the American counterpart to Brassaï, who photographed Paris street scenes at night. Weegee's themes of nudists, circus performers, freaks and street people were later taken up and developed by Diane Arbusin the early 1960s. In 1980, Weegee's companion Wilma Wilcox, along with Sidney Kaplan, Aaron Rose and Larry Silver, formed ...
Peter Sellers mimicked Weegee’s voice and gave it a German accent when playing the title role in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Academy Award nominated comedy Dr. Strangelove, where Weegee was on the set t...According to director Dario Argento, the photographer played by Harvey Keitel in his segment of Two Evil Eyeswas inspired by Weegee.The 1992 film The Public Eyeis said to be loosely based on WeegeeThe 1999 The X-Files episode "Tithonus" concerns an "Alfred Fellig", investigated for having photographed crime scenes prior to the arrival of emergency services.The Public Eye – Filmmaker Howard Franklinwas unable to secure the rights to Fellig's life story, so he created a fictionalized version.Barth, Miles; Bergala, Alain; and Handy, Ellen. Weegee's World. Boston: Little Brown, 1997.Lee, Anthony W. and Meyer, Richard. Weegee and Naked City. (Defining Moments in American Photography.)Purcell, Kerry William. Weegee. (Phaidon, 2004).Weegee. Weegee by Weegee (1961 (revised, reprinted, and retitled as Weegee: The Autobiography, 2013), autobiography).New York Times, June 20, 2008, "Crime Was Weegee's Oyster"Wired News, June 29, 2009, "'You Gotta Get It'—Words of Wisdom from Weegee"Apr 12, 2022 · Photos are sourced from a wide range of government databases and national photo libraries. From photos depicting iconic inventors and activists in action, to those simply depicting a day on the beach, each of these images shines a light on a small corner of American life between 1800 and 1899.
Italiano: FIle multimediali relativi all'anno 1899. Per immagini relative al 1899, vedere Category:1899. Magyar: A (z) 1899. évhez kapcsolódó média. Az ebből az évből származó képekhez lásd a Category:1899 kategóriát. Polski: Media związane z rokiem 1899. W przypadku zdjęć z 1899 zobacz Category:1899.
Virginia Oldoini Rapallini, Countess of Castiglione (23 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was an Italian aristocrat who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France. She was also a significant figure in the early history of photography .
