Toronto. Anyone out there who hasn’t heard of Weegee? Arthur Fellig and his trusty Speed Graphic haunted the streets of New York City mid last Century. He was busy beating cops and firemen to the scene and taking newspaper shots of the gristly findings – or heart touching rescues as shown here.
When not beating the men in blue (or smoke eaters) to the scene, Weegee was busy pounding his own drum. He seemed to be by far the most famous user of Graphic cameras.
My thanks to friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar, for sharing this touching ad on the great Graflex camera line in the January 1945 issue of Popular Photography, just months before our most horrific war ever was finished in Europe and then in Japan.