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	Weegee
		Weegee was born in 1899 in Zlothew near Lemberg.
		Weegee had to load and change the glass plate holders and to prepare the magnesium flash powder.
		In 1938, as one of the first civilians and as the first photographer, Weegee was granted a permit to install and operate a shortwave radio capable of receiving all police and fire transmissions from his 1938 Chevrolet.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmozero/weegee.htm (776 words)

	The Chrysler Musuem of Art - Weegee's Story - Biography
		Weegee often said that he was, "A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood." He quickly ordered a tintype outfit from a Chicago mail-order house, and after a few months he got his first job as a commercial photographer.
		In his autobiography Weegee stated, "They (the cops) wanted pictures of the kid, so that the mother, seeing the picture in the papers, might become remorseful and come to claim the child." Weegee was ready to take a smiling picture when the nurse stopped him.
		Today Weegee is credited with ushering in the age of tabloid culture, while at the same time being revered for elevating the sordid side of human life to that of high art.
	www.chrysler.org /weegee/biography (1458 words)

	Weegee (Getty Museum)
		As legend tells it, Arthur Fellig earned the nickname Weegee during his early career as a freelance press photographer in New York City.
		With his subjects ranging from wild-eyed adolescent onlookers at a late night gangland slaying to glassy-eyed starlets at Hollywood movie premieres, Weegee could be considered one of the first ambulance chasers.
		Weegee also worked in Hollywood as a filmmaker, performer, and technical consultant.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1887 (191 words)

	Weegee - Encyclopedia.com
		About 1938 he adopted the name Weegee, supposedly a phonetic version of the name of the Ouija board, in tribute to his seemingly clairvoyant ability to arrive where and when news was breaking (he monitored the police radio).
		Immortalizing the Ephemeral - The Photojournalism of Weegee.
		Weegee's adds color to neighborhood picture Series: Street Level: An occasional series telling the stories of Chicago- area people who know a thing or two about what makes the city work.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Weegee.html (757 words)

	Weegee - TIME
		Weegee does a better than ordinary job with the run-of-the-mine stuff—bodies crumpled on the pavement, flames licking a tenement roof, skirts swirling in the wind—but people and faces are what he is after.
		Weegee vigorously denies it, with a story of how he learned a lesson: photographing a shoeshine boy one day, he asked a passerby to put a foot on the stand; after developing the picture, he discovered that the man had rubbers on.
		Weegee, whose rabbi father brought him to the U.S. from Austria when he was ten, went to work early, spent 15 years pent up in Acme's darkrooms, developing pictures that other men took.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,803613,00.html (649 words)

	Matthew Marks Gallery
		Weegee (1899-1968) became famous for the documentary images of New York City he made prior to 1945, though little of the work he made in the last two decades of his life has received significant critical attention.
		Weegee's film Idiot Box is a five-minute montage of still and moving images with a wide variety of subjects, including advertisements for aspirin and brassieres, a poster soliciting donors for a sperm bank, a group of rowdy chimpanzees, the Empire State Building, and a prisoner strapped into an electric chair.
		Weegee, working in a medium that was barely considered art, received virtually no recognition for this kind of experimental work, to which he devoted most of his energies throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
	www.matthewmarks.com /index.php?n=2&c=9&e=401&l=105&pr=1 (404 words)

	Further Reading - Weegee
		Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 - December 26, 1968), an United Statesn photography and photojournalism.
		He is variously said to have named himself Weegee, or to have been named by either the girls at Acme or by a police officer.
		Weegee worked mostly at night, he listened closely to broadcasts and often beat authorities to the scene.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Acacia1327/weegee-further-reading.html (405 words)

	WeeGee - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
		WeeGee, nicknamed Weeg, was the Katarns' multi-purpose droid, handbuilt by Morgan Katarn.
		WeeGee was considered part of the Katarn family, and was programmed by Morgan to protect his son Kyle at all costs.
		WeeGee explodes, instantly killing the player if he is close enough, and Qu Rahn says, "For you the choice is the dark side." The player also shifts closer to the dark side by about a twentieth of the morality scale meter.
	starwars.wikia.com /wiki/WeeGee (566 words)

	Famous Photographers : Weegee
		Weegee's photos of crime scenes, car-wreck victims in pools of their own blood, overcrowded urban beaches and various grotesques are still shocking.
		Weegee’s photographic eye was unstoppable: drawn to the grotesque, the illicit, the illegal, Weegee delivered both harrowing and poignant photographs of crime scenes and criminals to New York’s tabloid-reading public in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Weegee’s understanding of people’s simultaneous repulsion and attraction to vivid photographs of crimes of passion, murder, brutal accidents was well before his time.
	www.twinisles.com /greats/weegee.htm (649 words)

	Weegee - Wikipedy
		Weegee wie it pseudonym fan Arthur Fellig, (12 juny 1899 - 26 desimber 1968), in ferneamde Amerikaanske fotograaf en fotosjoernalist.
		Weegee stie der om bekend dat hy faak noch foar't de autoriteiten ynljochte wiene, op plakken wie dêr't ûngemakken plakfûn hiene.
		As fotograaf is Weegee benammen bekend wurden fan syn faak en noch altyd skokkende swart-wyt bylden dy't hy yn de stritten fan New York makke: foto's fan slachtoffers fan misdieden en ûngemakken, oerfolle stêdsstrannen.
	fy.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weegee (405 words)

	Profotos - Weegee (Arthur Felig) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although stories differ as to how he came to use the name "Weegee," the most colorful is based upon his claiming with varying degrees of seriousness that his "psychic powers" enabled him to be first at the scene of crimes, fires, accidents and the like.
		Weegee's career spanned four decades and both coasts as well as Europe, although he is most celebrated for his extraordinary photographs of New York and New York characters.
		Further, even the damaged condition of many of Weegee's extant photographs has not mediated against their inclusion in museum exhibitions and this speaks to the persistence of his images in the mind's eye rather than to some bizarre perversity on the part of curators.
	www.profotos.com /education/referencedesk/masters/masters/weegee/weegee.shtml (1015 words)

	Unknown Weegee - International Center Of Photography
		Our image of Weegee is that of the prototypical New York tabloid news photographer: tough, garrulous, and on the scene, ready to cover two murders in one night.
		But the inventive Jewish immigrant Arthur Fellig (1899–1968), who assumed the self-mocking nickname Weegee, was also one of the most original and creative photographers of the twentieth century.
		These surprising and little-known materials will show Weegee to be a politically astute and witty social critic, and will attest to the seriousness and self-consciousness of his photographic endeavors.
	www.icp.org /site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.1706769/k.957F/Unknown_Weegee.htm (203 words)

	Weegee's Story: From the Berinson Collection :washingtonpost.com
		Weegee was the city's greatest freelance roving police photographer, at least for a while, in the '30s and the '40s when he had no other life.
		Weegee'd cruise the shadowed streets sniffing out the news, the three-alarms, the stiffs, the unexplained explosions.
		Others said (and Weegee liked this version better) that his name came from "Ouija board" because of the uncanny way he manged to anticipate the robberies and hits of the night.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/cityguide/profile?id=1064465&p=print (1351 words)

	Weegee Information
		Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 - December 26, 1968), an American photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark fl and white street photography.
		Weegee also made short 16mm films beginning in 1941 and worked with and in Hollywood from 1946 to the early 1960s, both as an actor and a consultant.
		"Weegee is a rather portly cigar-smoking, irregularly shaven man who has seen and recorded a great deal of ugliness and disaster, but he remains as shy and sensitive as if he had spent his life photographing babies and bridesmaids." From the introduction of 'Naked City'.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Weegee (763 words)

	Weegee [Transcript]: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits
		WEEGEE: Well, all my life, down on all the streets, I know 'em all because I drive all night long.
		WEEGEE: Well I used to spell it O-U-I-J-A, but I changed it to W-E-E-G-E-E to make it easier for the fan mail which I sometimes get.
		WEEGEE: Yeah, it was a very sad thing, I mean, sometimes.
	www.soundportraits.org /on-air/weegee/transcript.php3 (1063 words)

	Doppelganger magazine ::: it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins
		Weegee’s photos may be documents, they may document New York, or the urban, or the abject, or the underclass, or the night life, or the social contradictions, but they do this as something he has taken away.
		But this shift is ambiguous in Weegee’s work, for it happens in two ways: one, his furtive rearrangement of bodies or casting of actors for his pictures (which leads to film noir), and the other, his sometimes interesting, sometimes disastrous experiments with the distorted image.
		The relationship between Weegee’s photos and film noir seems to be self-evident: both focus on the city, on the night, on the criminal and underclass, on sexual relations, and are in fl-and-white.
	www.doppelgangermagazine.com /clint_burnham.html (1295 words)

	Weegee, The Gordon Archives
		Weegee photographed life, nothing else, all that you need to see is in the photograph.
		Weegee would consider to be a portrait showed an incredible amount of emotion.
		Weegee's work stands on its own, it's meant to be viewed one at a time, not as a group.
	www.weegee.org /biography.html (1675 words)

	Getty Images Gains Reproduction Rights of Weegee Photography Collection Business Wire - Find Articles
		The work of Weegee, the well-known photojournalist who was a pioneer in tabloid photojournalism, comprises about 12,000 images and is the property of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City.
		Weegee, born Arthur Fellig, was one of photography's most influential photojournalists.
		Weegee was the quintessential New York photographer of his era.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1998_Oct_14/ai_53081840 (815 words)

	Weegee's World \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Weegee is the alter ego of Arthur Fellig, the great New York freelance photographer who from the mid-'30s to the mid-'40s elevated the stark, often brutal imagery of fl-and-white tabloid photography to the status of low art.
		Weegee loved and excelled at all kinds of urban photography, and made many vivid images of Coney Island beach-goers, snooty opera attendees, lovers in movie theaters, and all types of playing children.
		The photo on the dust jacket seems like a standard shot of children clamoring to be in a picture, but Weegee was in fact standing over the body of a recently killed small-time hood when he snapped it; the children are pressing in to see the corpse.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/19068 (272 words)

	Weegee vintage photographs for sale
		Weegee, who was born in Poland in 1899, immigrated to New York City in 1909, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life.
		Weegee was the epitome of a brash, cigar-chewing, wisecracking news photographer.
		However, Weegee also photographed more benign scenes of children playing, celebrities and their fans, and everyday life of New York City inhabitants.
	www.leegallery.com /weegee.html (424 words)

	Worcester Art Museum - Weegee's World: Life, Death and the Human Drama
		Weegee, an Austrian immigrant born Arthur Fellig, built his career on the night beat, chasing breaking news, like murder, crime and grisly accidents.
		Weegee worked on the Naked City, the film's title (and subsequent TV show) borrowed from a book of his photos, and he was consultant and inspiration for the classic film Dr. Strangelove.
		Weegee's World: Life, Death and the Human Drama was organized by the International Center of Photography in New York.
	www.worcesterart.org /Exhibitions/Past/weegees_world.html (385 words)

	Weegee Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		From the 1930s tothe 1960s, his images of murder, mayhem, and New York's seamy underside set anew standard for immediacy and wit--and influenced a generation of imitators.Here is a landmark volume on one of the most celebrated news photographers ofthis century.
		Weegee held a mirror up to New York and revealed a city that was provocative and gripping, while at the same time managing to capture the City's heart.
		The viewing public's image of Weegee is of the prototypical New York tabloid news photographer: tough, garrulous and on the scene, ready to cover two murders in one night.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Weegee (477 words)

	Weegee: Masters of Photography
		"Weegee the famous," as he liked to be called, was a major influence in the field of newspaper photography.
		An assault to the eyes was created through his use of the flash's severe light; the harsh contrasts and deep shadows that resulted gave his images an extra jolt.
		Concerned more with the impact of his images than with the artistry, Weegee favored a tone of sarcasm and irony with a touch of compassion in his work.
	www.aperture.org /store/books-detail.aspx?ID=195 (146 words)

	David Serlin and Jesse Lerner - Weegee and the Jewish Question - Wide Angle 19:4
		Weegee (né Usher Fellig) is best known for his dystopic urban photographs, principally those images made in New York as a free-lance photojournalist in the years prior to the end of World War II.
		Weegee's formal (and, one might argue, formalistic) education by the streets, whorehouses, and mass cultural bombardment of New York City during the early decades of the twentieth century was mediated by his immigrant heritage and his Jewish identity.
		Weegee's work welcomes--and even celebrates--the vicissitudes of human suffering, which one might argue is central to a Yiddish phenomenology of the spirit.
	www.pitzer.edu /academics/faculty/lerner/wide_angle/19_4/194serlin.htm (3787 words)

	CityBeat: The Life of a Salesman (2002-07-18)
		Weegee, born Usher Fellig, came to the U.S. with his parents and three brothers in 1910 at the age of 10 from what was then Austria.
		In a matter of years, Weegee had photographed so many shootings of men wearing "pearl gray hats," the uniform of the rank-and-file mobster, that newspaper editors were bored and had trouble telling them apart.
		Weegee took assignments, but was also left to take the photos he wanted to.
	www.citybeat.com /2002-07-18/cover.shtml (2750 words)

	Weegee: Paparazzi or Social Documentarian?
		Weegee was born Usher Fellig (June 12, 1899 - December 26, 1968), and
		Weegee is a phonetic spelling of Ouija, a nickname given to him due to
		Weegee was also an uncredited consultant for the movie Dr.
	www.mdrails.com /wordsweegee.html (893 words)

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