San Remo

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San Remo

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Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

American Photographer · 1899–1968

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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

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Date
about 1945
Medium
Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
31ed208c-3168-46bc-86f4-fe9dcab9fd1d

Crowd of people smoking and drinking at the San Remo Bar, Greenwich Village; a man wearing a hat and a woman wearing black horn-rimmed glasses standing at the bar are drinking beer from bottles.

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