PHOTOGRAPHER DIES – Arthur Fellig, the famous photographer known as “Weegee,” who turned his experiences covering Manhattan police headquarters into the novel “Naked City”…
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“Weegee the Photographer Dies; Chronicled Life in ‘Naked City'”
The New York Times, December 27, 1968, p.33
“The Candidates”
The Candidates
As Seen Through the Three Eyes of Weegee
One of America’s Outstanding Photographers
“I take pictures with my third eye – the inner eye – the eye that sees what lies beneath the surface of the subject. What some call a pictorial distortion may, in truth, be the reality. And what we call reality may be a distortion of the truth.” Weegee. (October 1968) /
Start writing or type / to choose a block
Start writing or type / to choose a block
Start writing or type / to choose a block
“I like things to be normal…”
New York Post, Friday, December 27, 1968, p. 14
“The Dali of photography… I like things to be normal. A good fire or a murder every few nights. It’s natural for a woman to shoot her husband and a guy to throw his sweetheart off a cliff. I hate suppressed desires.
In recent years he was also noted for abstract photos…”
46 Years Ago Today… “Crime Photographer Weegee Dies”
New York Post, December 27, 1968
46 Years Ago Today… “Weegee the Photographer Dies; Chronicled Life in ‘Naked City'”
The New York Times, December 27, 1968
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