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Arthur (Usher) Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City. [1]
Mar 4, 2020 · A loner and an outlier, Weegee took photos of people on the margins of New York society. A new reissue of his photobook Naked City reveals the extraordinary power of his images.
Weegee is a photoshop meme based on the avatar of Luigi. Placing Weegee in an image creates awkward situations and a sense of discomfort.
Aug 7, 2021 · No other photographer came close to capturing the sensations, gruesome murders, scandals, and catastrophes of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s like Weegee did. Unique and immediately recognizable, his work stands alone in the history of photography. His greatest photos have an unsettling beauty and the power of images which, once seen, are ...
Weegee embraced this origin story, attributing “Weegee” to a simplification of “Ouija” in signing and answering fan mail, often expanding his title to “Weegee the Famous.”. But in fact, his name is rooted in his beginnings in the world of press photography.
Apr 3, 2024 · Arthur H. Fellig [1899 – 1968], better known by his pseudonym Weegee, was an American photographer and photojournalist renowned for his stark black-and-white street photography of New York City. He emerged in the 1930s as a chronicler of the city’s underbelly, capturing the raw and often gritty realities of crime, poverty, and urban life.
May 30, 2018 · The photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, lugged his enormous Speed Graphic camera around the nighttime streets of New York City in the 1930s and ’40s, cultivating a persona as...
May 21, 2018 · Weegee the Famous, the Voyeur and Exhibitionist. The street photographer turned gritty, grisly New York scenes into art. By Thomas Mallon. May 21, 2018. The secret of Weegee’s photography was his...
Jun 1, 2018 · To write a concise history of the showboating, hard-boiled photographer known as Weegee, you’d do well to follow the advice of Christopher Bonanos, the author of “Flash: The Making of Weegee ...
May 19, 2024 · Starting in 1935, he was self-employed as photo-reporter. Towards 1937, he began using the pseudonym Weegee, and around 1941, started marking the backs of his prints with a stamp in the form of a self-fulfilling prophecy: “Weegee the Famous.”
