Reception Following an Opening at the Metropolitan Opera

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Reception Following an Opening at the Metropolitan Opera

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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
1943
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Getty Museum
Object ID
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