His apparent prescience made it seem like he used a Ouija board; spelled phonetically it became “Weegee.” His Speed Graphic negatives include lots of detail, and the bright flashbulbs he used ...
I’m always up for Weegee. That’s Arthur Fellig (1899–1968), the brewed-in-bitters photojournalist whose snaps of slugged gangsters and crashed cars showed us what’s always to be found ...
By John Otis Arthur Fellig, the prolific photographer and incidental social critic better known as Weegee, was highly regarded for his gritty street tableaus. He began working as a freelance news ...
In “Weegee’s Secrets of Shooting with Photoflash,” a 1953 instruction manual for hobbyists and would-be professionals, the famed photojournalist Arthur Fellig offers this piece of advice ...