Naked Hollywood @ MOCA

LA Times Blog, 11/12/11:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/11/weegees-naked-hollywood-at-moca.html

Weegee’s ‘Naked Hollywood’ at MOCA

Weegee, a.k.a. photojournalist Arthur Fellig, derived his moniker from the phonic adaptation of the Ouija board, because of his customary arrivals at crime scenes minutes before the authorities. That was in his heyday in New York City during the 1930s and ’40s, when he made a name for himself with his intrepid film noir-esque black-and-white photos of five-alarm fires, horrific accidents and the blood-spattered corpses of murdered mobsters.
In 1947, Weegee relocated to Los Angeles to take on the equally formidable Hollywood scene…

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