“…announced the disheveled Weegee.”

May 16, 2020
Naked City

“Weegee the fabulous photographer whose book “Naked City” helped inspire the late Mark Hellinger to produce the exciting screen opus of the same title, sits in Lindys and waves a card he received from India, a belated greeting from Photographer Margaret Bourke-White. “She’s been back for months and it arrived today,” announced the disheveled Weegee.”

(A series of blog posts that contain “Naked City” related material to commemorate the fabulous new printing of the book “Naked City.”)

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April 21, 2020
Naked City

Weegee’s Naked City

Arthur Fellig, dit Weegee, photographe ukrainien immigré aux États-Unis au début du XXème siècle, s’est fait connaitre pour ses clichés des bas-fonds de New York, qu’il arpentait de nuit, appareil photo en main, de scènes de crimes en cabarets érotiques. Publié pour la première fois en 1945 et tout juste réédité, Weegee’s Naked City réunit des dizaines de clichés pris entre les dernières heures de la nuit et les premières heures du jour : des amants sur la plage, des gens observant une scène de meurtre depuis leurs fenêtres, le service de Pâques dans une église de Harlem… avec le style cru qui l’a rendu célèbre. Une oeuvre fondatrice dans l’histoire du photojournalisme.
Weegee’s Naked City, éditions Damiani, 292 pages, 36 €

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Weegee’s Naked City

Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, a Ukrainian photographer who immigrated to the United States at the start of the 20th century, became known for his shots of the New York shallows, which he surveyed at night, camera in hand, scenes from crimes in erotic cabarets. First published in 1945 and just reissued, Weegee’s Naked City brings together dozens of shots taken between the last hours of the night and the early hours of the day: lovers on the beach, people watching a murder scene from their windows, Easter service in a Harlem church… with the vintage style that made it famous. A founding work in the history of photojournalism.
Weegee’s Naked City, éditions Damiani, 292 pages, 36 €

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Weegee’s “Naked City” on the BBC

March 5, 2020
Naked City


Screenshot of bbc.com.

Weegee: Photos of a seedy underworld

A loner and an outlier, Weegee took news snaps of people on the margins – which went on to influence photographers after his death. A new reissue of his classic photobook Naked City reveals the extraordinary power of his images.

By Oliver Lunn
March 4, 2020

Arthur Fellig was a freelance news photographer famed for his gritty crime pictures of New York City in the late 1930s and 40s. Known as Weegee, perhaps a wordplay on ‘OuiJa board’ because of his prescient arrivals at the scenes of emergencies, he appeared like a character from a Hollywood film noir – cigar between his lips, cartoonishly big camera flash around his neck, a vocabulary that referred to dead bodies as “stiffs”…

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“Witness”

February 4, 2020
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Witness, December 22, 1960 (Episode 12)

Peter Falk as Abe “Kid Twist” Reles (1906-1941) of Murder Inc…

Begins and ends with the narrator holding a photo: “This is a picture of George ‘Whitey’ Rudnick…” (no mention of Rudnick’s drug addiction).
Irving “Puggy” Feinstein (1909–1939) reference at 49:49.

“Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup”

February 3, 2020
1942, PM

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PM, February 3, 1942, pp. 10-11, Vol. II, No. 164

Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup
The boys were playing a little pool and cards in the Spring Arrow Social and Athletic Club, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery last night. Patrolman Eligio Sarro, off duty, went in for a pack of cigarets. Four men entered. “This is a stick-up,” the leader muttered. Sarro was a little slow getting his hands out of his overcoat pockets. “Get ’em up,” ordered the leader, Sarro did. One hand held a gun. When he got through firing, the leader was dead.

The usual curious crowd gathered after the gunman, fatally wounded, staggered from the entrance. He was about 22, dark and chunky. Police said he was Andrew Izzo with a record of six arrests.

Patrolman Sarro smokes a cigaret a few minutes after he dropped the gunman. He’s assigned to the Empire Blvd. precinct in Brooklyn. He lives only a few doors from the club.
PM Photos by Weegee