Artist Laura Levine was recently picking through 15,000 LPs she purchased for her Phoenicia, New York antique shop The Mystery Spot. She came across this treasure, Famous Photographers Tell How. It features advice from Henri-Carter Bresson, Bert Stern, Tana Hoban, Arhur Rothstein, and, my fave, incredible 1940s crime photographer Weegee, of Naked City (1945) fame. Levine and Ted Barron kindly posted select MP3s from the LP at the Boogie Woogie Flu blog. Choice Weegee quotes:
"Now the easiest kind of a job was a murder, because the stiff would be laying on the ground. He couldn't get up and walk away and get tempermental and he would be good for at least two hours.""I will walk many times with friends down the street and they'll say 'Hey, Weegee. Here's a drunk or two drunks laying on the gutter' I take one quick look at that and say 'They lack character.' So, even a drunk must be a masterpiece!"
