Arrested for Bribing Basketball Players

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Arrested for Bribing Basketball Players

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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
negative January 25, 1945; print about 1950
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
5775613e-1693-4571-8929-44903f623dc8
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