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

Recent Auction Not Weegee: “WEEGEE Silver Gelatin 1940S Man with baby bottle” and more…

December 10, 2019
auction


“WEEGEE Silver Gelatin 1940S Man with baby bottle”

“From world famous archive!
This photo was among a collection of stamped weegee photos there is a photo of the stamp in description.
That is how we think this is a weegee photograph.. but because it is not stamped we cant charge the going rate for weegee images

this photo is not stamped!
Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography…

PHOTO IS IN GOOD CONDITION FOR ITS AGE AND RARITY ”

(Photos and words copied from ebay.)

Sold for $11.99 – “best offer accepted” (ebay)

November 2019.

(Obviously this photo was not made by Weegee.)


“WEEGEE Silver Gelatin 1940S fireplace “

From world famous archive!
This photo was among a collection of stamped weegee photos there is a photo of the stamp in description.
That is how we think this is a weegee photograph.. but because it is not stamped we cant charge the going rate for weegee images

this photo is not stamped!
Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography…

PHOTO IS IN GOOD CONDITION FOR ITS AGE AND RARITY”

(Photos and words copied from ebay.)

Sold for $11.99 – “best offer accepted” (ebay)

November, 2019.

(Obviously this photo was not made by Weegee.)


“WEEGEE Silver Gelatin 1940S DEVILS HOLIDAY”

“From world famous archive!
This photo was among a collection of stamped weegee photos there is a photo of the stamp in description.
That is how we know this is a weegee photograph.. but because it is not stamped we cant charge the going rate for weegee images

this photo is not stamped!
Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography…

PHOTO IS IN GOOD CONDITION FOR ITS AGE AND RARITY”

(Photos and words copied from ebay.)

Sold for $11.99 – “best offer accepted” (ebay)

November, 2019.

(Obviously this photo was not made by Weegee.)