The Park Bench

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The Park Bench

Creator

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
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Couple sleeping on a park bench at center. Man behind them picking up trash with a pickstick. A lone woman on the bench in the foreground is making a watercolor.

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