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[Couple Kissing in a Bar]
Creator
Weegee (Arthur Fellig)American Photographer · 1899–1968
All works by this person →As legend tells it, Arthur Fellig earned the nickname *Weegee* during his early career as a freelance press photographer in New York City. His apparent sixth sense for crime often led him to a scene well ahead of the police. Observers likened this sense, actually derived from tuning his radio to the police frequency, to the Ouija board, the popular fortune-telling game. Spelling it phonetically, F
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- negative about 1942; print about 1950
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 04d90681-8364-41d9-a8f3-13ef003ad0e2
What the image shows
A man and a woman are kissing passionately on a bar counter.
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From the Getty Museum record
Man in hat kissing a woman with a flower in her hair at a bar, probably in the Bowery.
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