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Slightly Creepy Photos of New York Moviegoers from the 1940s
A new exhibit recalls when the photographer Weegee turned his lens on the audience.
In 1940, photographer Weegee, also known as Arthur Fellig, turned his lens on New York moviegoing audience, and the result is probably more interesting than whatever was happening on screen. Fourteen of the photos from this series are being featured together for first time in an exhibition at the Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas in New York, and are otherwise housed at the Weegee archive at the International Center of Photography.
"To see them next to each is ... very striking and powerful," says Pauline Vermare, the curator of the exhibit.