In the early 20s, a photographer in NYC had the idea to get his own police scanner so that whenever the NYPD broadcasted a crime scene he would be there, camera in hand. His name was Arthur Fellig, born in 1899, and he became known as “Weegee” on the NYC streets, known for his ability […]
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Weegee was the great photographer of New York in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, whose book Naked City helped to create the mythology of the city.
In 1943, Arthur Fellig , aka Weegee, photographed the audience in the dark at New York movie theaters. Equipped with an infrared flash and a special film, his snapshots are what we get up to in the dark...
Step into the world of Weegee, the famous crime scene photographer whose keen eye for the dramatic captured the essence of urban life in mid-20th century America.
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph, organized by guest curator Vince Aletti, is an exhibition drawn largely from the permanent collection of ICP that looks at the ...
Weegee was the great photographer of New York in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, whose book Naked City helped to create the mythology of the city.
Weegee was the great photographer of New York in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, whose book Naked City helped to create the mythology of the city.
Weegee was the great photographer of New York in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, whose book Naked City helped to create the mythology of the city.
Photographs from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) work in the 1930s and the American Mining Communities project commissioned by the Dept of Interior in the 1940s.
Weegee was the great photographer of New York in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, whose book Naked City helped to create the mythology of the city.
Weegee was the great photographer of New York in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, whose book Naked City helped to create the mythology of the city.
Weegee was the great photographer of New York in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, whose book Naked City helped to create the mythology of the city.
Sometimes, he claimed, he would arrive before the authorities. He gained the nickname “Weegee” from the Ouija board, events would happen. By Mark Svetov, Originally Published in Noir City Sentinel, Fall 2010 By his own estimation, Arthur Fellig (a/k/a Weegee, 1899-1968) covered more than
Weegee was the great photographer of New York in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, whose book Naked City helped to create the mythology of the city.
The renowned Ukrainian photographer’s raucous take on New York was buzzy, alive and totally unexpected. As this book of images first released in 1945 shows, he saw the beauty of the city, even in its most debauched, disorderly moments. If Cartier-Bresson devised the concept of the decisive moment; Weegee’s images exemplified these moments, time and time again.
Premium Rates Apply. Clark Gable smokes a cigarette with an astonished friend in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Weegee /International Center of Photography/Getty Images)
Weegee, Only a Dream, ca. 1938 Weegee, Only a Dream, ca. 1938 (verso) Weegee, [Man holding a turkey], ca. 1940 Weegee, [Man holding a turkey], ca. 1940 (verso)
From the Dorman Long collection, documenting the building of The George V or Tyne Bridge between 1925 and 1928: a great example of industrial photography.
