June 6, 2008


Words in the News, Words You Can Use

Tuesday’s New York Times included a story featuring one of those words.

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.

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  1. Sheila Ryan on June 6th, 2008 at 9:07 am

    “ ‘We’re just lucky that it all survived,’ said Martin Krause, the museum’s curator of prints, drawings and photographs. ‘The woman who found them thought maybe these were just old family snapshots or something — though how you could mistake a Weegee for a family photograph, I don’t know.’ ”

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