Lovers, Coney Island, New York

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Lovers, Coney Island, New York

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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 1940
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
8e9d9547-32b7-4e56-b37b-4359e52539a0

Black couple making out on a park bench. The man is seated about to kiss the girl who has her head on his lap, her legs are dangling off the bench.

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