Weegee
1959-1960
Weegee with Kaleidoscope Camera Attachment, Piccadilly Circus, London

Gelatin silver print
9-1/2 x 7-5/8 in. (image) 10-1/8 x 8-1/8 in. (sheet)
 
Indianapolis Museum of Art
© Weegee/International Center of Photography/Getty Images, Caroline Marmon Fesler Fund, Gift of the Alliance of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Roger G. Wolcott Fund, Nancy Foxwell Neuberger Acquisition Endowment Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Van Vorhees Art Fund, Cecil F. Head Art Fund, James V. Sweetser Fund, Accession number: 2009.221
 
"Browsing through a Woolworth store one afternoon, I saw a kaleidoscope on the counter in the toy department. Always curious, I picked it up and peeked through it. I was fascinated by the beautiful and colorful symmetrical designs you got just by rotating it . . . Then I wondered if I could take pictures through it." —Weegee by Weegee
 
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