WEEGEE (1899–1968)

Peter Martin, the photograph-magazine editor, photographer, friend to Weegee and original owner of this work had a studio in Greenwich Village that served as a meeting place for both famous and aspiring New York-based photographers of the 1940s and 1950s. Among those in Martin's circle of friends and colleagues were Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith, Ruth Orkin and others. Martin was the editor of the magazine where this maquette appeared, Glamour Photography, and he purchased the photographs directly from Weegee.