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Episode #5: Death and Disaster, Warhol and Weegee (Season 1, Episode 5)
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:43:55
Publish Date: 2016-10-13 14:29:07
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Andy Warhol's take on mortality wasn't about memorializing. He instead focused on the direct causes of death, or the aftermath of a terrible accident. His series, Death and Disaster, is one of the most well-known and polarizing of his career. But Warhol wasn't the first artist to focus on the everyday tragedy of death as a subject to quite this revealing and exploitative extend. That honor might very well belong to someone else: an immigrant photographer working in Manhattan in the 1930s and 1940s. 

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Weegee as Witness

The Original Nightcrawler

Weegee's Day at the Beach

Art Portfolio: Weegee

Death and Death and Death by Warhol

Andy Warhol, the Death and Disaster Series and Prestige

Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Self Portrait
Weegee's Photo Credit
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Girl jumped out of car, and was killed, on Park Ave., circa 1938
Weegee perched on a fire escape, New York. Photo by Leigh Wiener.
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Their First Murder, c. 1941
Andy Warhol, 32 Soup Cans, 1961-62 Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, each 50.8 x 40.6 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Mirror front page, inspiration for Warhol's 129 Die in Jet
Andy Warhol, 129 Die in Jet, 1962, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 100 x 72 in. (254 x 182.9 cm.)
Andy Warhol, 5 Deaths, 1963, stamped 'Andy Warhol' (on the overlap), silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas 44 x 33 in.
Andy Warhol, Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), 1963, acrylic screenprint on canvas, 8 by 13 feet, private collection.
Marilyn Monroe, Still from Niagara
Gold Marilyn Monroe Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987) 1962. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 6' 11 1/4
An original photo of Marilyn, distorted by Weegee's plastic lens, c. 1960
Andy Warhol, 16 Jackies, 1964, acrylic screenprint on canvas
Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (American, 1899-1968). Self Portrait with Andy Warhol, 1965. Gelatin silver photograph, Image: 10 3/8 x 10 15/16 in. (26.4 x 27.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Andy Warhol Distortion, c. 1965, 8 3/8 x 6 3/4 in, International Center for Photography, New York
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Andy Warhol Distortion, c. 1967, Image: 6 3/8 x 6 in. International Center for Photography, New York
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