LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2025

Museum Hours

Monday

11 am–6 pm

Tuesday

11 am–6 pm

Wednesday

Closed

Thursday

11 am–6 pm

Friday

11 am–8 pm

Saturday

10 am–7 pm

Sunday

10 am–7 pm

 

  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2025
Collections

Weegee [Arthur Fellig]
Self-Portraitcirca 1940

Not on view
Black and white photograph of a man in a pinstriped suit peering through a Speed Graphic press camera with a cigar clenched in his teeth, dramatically lit from above
Artist or Maker
Weegee [Arthur Fellig]
Austria, active United States, 1899-1968
Title
Self-Portrait
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1940
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (34.29 × 26.67 cm) Primary support: 14 × 11 in. (35.56 × 27.94 cm) Secondary support: 16 × 13 in. (40.64 × 33.02 cm) Mat: 24 × 19 7/8 in. (60.96 × 50.48 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.133
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.