{"id":5118,"date":"2015-10-29T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2015-10-29T19:02:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T23:02:02","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-weegee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/letter-to-the-editor-weegee\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor – Weegee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crayons-letterbundle\"<\/a>Toronto<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0On October 21st, I wrote a post on Weegee<\/a><\/em>. To my surprise, it resulted in this letter to the editor<\/em> by my friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar.\u00a0George has a theory regarding the nickname Weegee<\/em>, but it has nothing to do with the famous old Ouija Board!<\/p>\n

George writes, “I’m a great fan of Weegee<\/em> and his extraordinary photography (been studying his career since I first learned about him 65 years ago). There’s no doubt that I will soon be enjoying the Ryerson exhibit of Weegee the Famous<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“However, while the nickname Weegee<\/em>\u00a0is certainly unique, the origin may be based on myth. In Weegee’s<\/em>\u00a0early years, he assisted in a darkroom and used a squeegee in the process of drying prints. That common photo accessory and his small stature may have contributed to\u00a0the youth’s nickname, Weegee<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Later in his career, after becoming a press photographer and arriving at some crime scenes before anyone else, the origin of his long-held nickname was altered and became part of the Weegee<\/em> mystique.<\/p>\n

George Dunbar.<\/p>\n

N.b.The icon of letters for this post was borrowed from an American site, National Braille Press<\/a>, devoted to writing for Children. Have a look at their charming site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0On October 21st, I wrote a post on Weegee. To my surprise, it resulted in this letter to the editor by my friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar.\u00a0George has a theory regarding the nickname Weegee, but it has nothing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,45],"tags":[419,58,5,418],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-people","tag-arthur-fellig","tag-history","tag-photographer","tag-weegee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}