WEEGEE

Fashion studies (Umbrella on the beach; and Strapless dress)

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WEEGEE
Fashion studies (Umbrella on the beach; and Strapless dress)
2 gelatin silver prints. 1950s. The first with PHOTO-REPRESENTATIVES credit stamp; each with collection stamp on the verso.
9 x 7in. (23.6 x 19cm.); and 6.3/8 x 5in. (16.2 x 14cm.) (2)

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After Weegee returned to New York from Hollywood in the early 1950s, he was commissioned by Vogue to do photocaricatures of celebrities. Enjoying this experimentation, he applied his technique to fashion work and wrote approvingly in his autobiography "...at Vogue anything went".