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Weegee
Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in Manhattan, New York City's Lower East Side as a press photographer during the 1930s and '40s, and he developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity.〔(''New York Times'', June 9, 2006, "'Unknown Weegee,' on Photographer Who Made the Night Noir" )〕 Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. Weegee published photographic books and also worked in cinema, initially making his own short films and later collaborating with film directors such as Jack Donohue and Stanley Kubrick.
==Life==
Weegee was born Ascher (Usher) Fellig in Złoczów (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), near Lemberg, Austrian Galicia. His name was changed to Arthur when he emigrated with his family to live in New York in 1909. There he took numerous odd jobs, including working as an itinerant photographer and as an assistant to a commercial photographer. In 1924 he was hired as a dark-room technician by Acme Newspictures (later United Press International Photos). He left, however, in 1935 to become a freelance photographer. Describing his beginnings, Weegee stated:In my particular case I didn't wait 'til somebody gave me a job or something, I went and created a job for myself—freelance photographer. And what I did, anybody else can do. What I did simply was this: I went down to Manhattan Police Headquarters and for two years I worked without a police card or any kind of credentials. When a story came over a police teletype, I would go to it. The idea was I sold the pictures to the newspapers. And naturally, I picked a story that meant something.〔Fellig, Arthur. ("Weegee Interview" ) ''BOMB Magazine'' Summer, 1987.〕 He worked at night and competed with the police to be first at the scene of a crime, selling his photographs to tabloids and photographic agencies.〔(Weegee ) MoMA Collection, New York.〕 His photographs, centered around Manhattan police headquarters, were soon published by the ''Herald Tribune'', ''World-Telegram'', ''Daily News'', ''New York Post'', ''New York Journal American'', ''Sun'', and others.
In 1957, after developing diabetes, he moved in with Wilma Wilcox, a Quaker social worker whom he had known since the 1940s, and who cared for him and then cared for his work.〔Roberta Smith (January 19, 2012), (He Made Blood and Guts Familiar and Fabulous ) ''New York Times''.〕 He traveled extensively in Europe until 1968, working for the ''Daily Mirror'' and on a variety of photography, film, lecture, and book projects. On December 26, 1968, Weegee died in New York at the age of 69.
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