Nearly 100 were from Darnah, and their portraits paper the stucco walls of the Sahaba Mosque.
Weegee's work life and personality come into focus through a wide range of portraits, papers, and paraphernalia that open up his various working spaces, from his studio to the trunk of his car, as well as his interactions with the police, victims, and criminals.
Political powerhouses are paraded here, too, with Ben Shahn's gouache of Josef Goebbels caught in full rant and Robert Arneson's 1991 portrait on paper of the first President Bush, titled "Most Evil No. 2," in which the president is quite as mockingly observed.
mix blending and glazing medium into the oil mixture, then paint the surface like how you would paint a portrait on paper.
Freeborn, who refers to her portraits as "paper faces", developed the technique after experimenting with collage and oil painting at art school.
"Melting into you" is at Cecil Sharp House in Primrose Hill from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday 14 December, and consists of 20 or so small portraits on paper of Sylvia Plath, Pussy Riot, Cara Delevingne and Sienna Miller, among others.
According to a publisher's note in the Dover Publications collection of his work, Étienne de Silhouette "amused himself by cutting portraits from paper" in the mid-1700's, when he was also the comptroller general of France.
Quinn borrows, adapts, deconstructs and reconstructs to build these portraits on paper and canvas.
Perhaps a touch more incredible is the work of Thomas Witte, an artist who cuts mindblowingly intricate portraits into paper.
Using his fingertips, an ink stamp-pad and extraordinary control, he made everything from small portraits on paper to a 9-foot black-and-white head.
