To days photographer is - Weegee (Usher Fellig) was born on June 12, 1899 in Złoczów, near the town of Lemberg, Austria. ... This is also where he got his now iconic nickname “Weegee”. After leaving Acme he worked as a freelance photographer for a decade.
Weegee specialized in crime and catastrophe very few policeman have seen so much violence as Arther Fellig known as Weegee. Weegee’s work is regarded as some of the most powerful images of the 20th century. His profound influence on other photographers derives not only from his sensational subject matter and his use of the blinding, close-up flash, but also from his eagerness to photograph the city at all hours, at all levels. Coffee shops at three in the morning, hot summer evenings in the tenements, debutante balls, parties in the street, lovers on park benches, the destitute and the lonely.
http://www.stevenkasher.com/artists/weegee?view=slider#8
No other photographer has better revealed the non-stop spectacle of life in New York City.
body with a tag deceased on arrival
Homeless and drunks
on the fire escape because of a heat spell
Weegee specialized in crime and catastrophe very few policeman have seen so much violence as Arther Fellig known as Weegee. Weegee’s work is regarded as some of the most powerful images of the 20th century. His profound influence on other photographers derives not only from his sensational subject matter and his use of the blinding, close-up flash, but also from his eagerness to photograph the city at all hours, at all levels. Coffee shops at three in the morning, hot summer evenings in the tenements, debutante balls, parties in the street, lovers on park benches, the destitute and the lonely.
http://www.stevenkasher.com/artists/weegee?view=slider#8
No other photographer has better revealed the non-stop spectacle of life in New York City.
body with a tag deceased on arrival Homeless and drunks
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