Posted under: 
Happy 4th Of July: Photography By Weegee
This is the first of several posts I’m putting up today of my favourite American photographers and artists.
Arthur Fellig was born in Austria in 1899 and moved to the the USA in 1909, settling in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. In 1935, he became a freelance photographer and acquired the name Weegee, apparently a reference to the Ouija board and his uncanny ability to arrive quickly at crime scenes – sometimes, even before the police. In 1937, he was the only civilian allowed to install a police radio in his car.
All of these photographs come from the Amber Online Exhibit.
Tags: Photography, Weegee
2 Comments + Add Comment
Got anything to say? Go ahead and leave a comment!
Follow Me On Twitter
Art Prints For Sale
Recent Comments
- Evelyn Yap on Photoshop Tutorial: How To Create An Action To Watermark Your Images
- pk on Photoshop Tip: Quick Tracking and Kerning of Text
- Photoshop Fun: Making Toy Models of Italian Trip Photos | CreepyStock on How To Create The Tilt Shift Toy Model Look With Your Photographs In Photoshop
- Lindsay on Creating speech bubbles in Photoshop using the Custom Shape Tool
- Smo on Creating speech bubbles in Photoshop using the Custom Shape Tool
Gallery
Wow, these are terrific! (although that woman with the black eye… my heart quails). I wasn’t aware of Weegee. Thoroughly enjoyed your Arbus selection as well!
Heather, yes, there’s something extremely sad about that photograph. Actually quite a few of them make me feel a bit sad. Great photography.