You may know Weegee as the as the crime photographer who documented New York in the 1930s and 1940s…
After ditching his career as a photojournalist, Weegee moved to Los Angeles in 1947. It was in California that he began experimenting with distorted images, photographing celebrities, news clippings and even scenes from television. Though he produced distorted images of a wide range of subjects from presidents to movie stars, Weegee turned his surrealist lens on the classical world’s most famous painting, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa,in the late 1950s.
Weegee’s surrealist interpretations of Mona Lisa invites the viewer to revisit the iconic painting with ‘new eyes’—but hopefully not two sets of them…
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