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The WeeGee Exhibition Centre
The WeeGee house ( fi, WeeGee-talo, sv, WeeGee-huset), officially The WeeGee Exhibition Centre, is the former printing house of the Weilin+Göös publishing house situated on Ahertajantie in Tapiola, Espoo, Finland. The first two phases of the building were designed by architect Aarno Ruusuvuori and completed in 1964 and 1967. Nowadays, the protected building serves as the largest exhibition centre in Finland. The entirety of the exhibition centre was opened for the public in October 2006. The WeeGee house hosts the Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), the Espoo City Museum, the Finnish Museum of Horology The Finnish Museum of Horology ( fi, Suomen Kellomuseo, sv, Finlands Urmuseum) is a horological museum located in exhibition centre WeeGee house in Tapiola, Espoo Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in t ..., the Finnish Toy Museum, The Futuro-House, Studio Suuronen and other cultural institutions. The museums share a common café an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WeeGee Ruusuvuori Espoo
Arthur (Usher) Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City. Weegee worked in Manhattan's Lower East Side as a press photographer during the 1930s and 1940s and developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. Weegee published photographic books and also worked in cinema, initially making his own short films and later collaborating with film directors such as Jack Donohue and Stanley Kubrick. Weegee was born Ascher (later modified to Usher) Fellig in Złoczów (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), near Lemberg in Austrian Galicia. His given name was changed to Arthur after he emigrated with his family to New York in 1909. The father of the family, Bernard Fellig, emigrated in 1908, followed in 1909 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
