"... 210 vintage black-and-white photographic prints, were found in 2003 in a zebra-stripe trunk that was bought at a yard sale in Kentucky by two Indiana women who were on their way back from a camping trip. One of the women simply liked the look of the trunk, and when she found old clothes, yellowed papers and pictures inside, she thought about throwing the contents away.

But she took them instead to an Indianapolis rare-documents dealer. And this week the Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to announce that it has acquired a trove of work and correspondence by Weegee, the crepuscular, stogie-smoking New York photographer whose visceral pictures became a template not only for artists like Diane Arbus but also for much of the uncomfortably close tabloid imagery that exists today. The museum described the acquisition as a partial gift and partial purchase from the dealer"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/arts/design/03muse.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I have to admit to being fascinated with pictures of people from the 1930s, 1940s, etc. Just something about the history, and wondering how their lives turned out.

Robert M. Teague

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I love his stuff as well (not too much the crime scenes). They always make me wonder about the people.

Robert M. Teague

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