Weegee Photography Roof

Works from the international center of photography collection new york.

Weegee photography roof.

Bulfinch press in association with the international center of photography 1999 p. Seventy three prints were stashed in a kitchen cupboard and. His professional name was weegee spelled phonetically after the popular fortune telling game ouija board to which his supposed sixth sense for crime was compared. Reflections in a glass eye.

Weegee was a legendary news photographer whose stock and trade were candid shots of people in the streets in bars and at crime scenes. Weegee worked in manhattan s lower east side as a press photographer during the 1930s and 1940s and developed his signature style by following the city s emergency services and documenting. Weegee s father bernard fellig immigrated to the united states in 1906 and was followed four years later by his wife and four children including usher the second born. A trove of lost new york city crime scene photos taken by legendary photographer weegee have been unearthed after 82 years.

See weegee s world november 2 1987 march 8 1998. Weegee published his photographs in several books including naked city 1945 weegee s people 1946 and naked hollywood 1953 photograph.