Style and Art

The Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to announce that it has acquired a trove of work and correspondence by Weegee, the New York photographer whose visceral pictures became a template not only for artists like Diane Arbus but also for much of the uncomfortably close tabloid imagery that exists today.

The photos were found in a trunk bought by two Indiana women that contained 210 vintage prints by the photographer.. The trunk is assumed to have once been the possession of Wilma Wilcox, a social worker who was Weegee’s companion and lived with him from 1957 until his death in 1968.

Enjoy this slideshow of some of the photos found on the trove.