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Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous

Run Dates
April 17, 2010 - January 23, 2011
Exhibition Number
EX2010.17
Venue
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Exhibition Organizer
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Exhibition Curator
Marty Krause
Exhibition Designer
David Russick

For this exhibition, forty-eight works have been selected from the recent major acquisition of 240 photographs by Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), the father of New York street photography who was better known as Weegee the Famous. The exhibition will follow his career from 1931 to 1965, when he mixed with the crowds and chronicled their daily dramas. Crime scenes in the thirties, Harlem jazz clubs in the forties, Greenwich Village coffee houses in the fifties, burlesque houses and portraits of the famous-- shot through distorting lenses of his own devising-- defined his work.


No photography is available for this exhibition.

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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MA-251861-OMS-22].