Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
American Photographer · 1899–1968
35 works on LinkedCulture
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
Works
![[Alfred Stieglitz]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ade4304e-7358-4ec6-b714-9dc7514ee301/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Alfred Stieglitz]
Getty Museum · negative May 1944; print about 1950

Arrested for Bribing Basketball Players
Getty Museum · negative January 25, 1945; print about 1950

At the Concert in Harlem
Getty Museum · before 1946; print about 1950
![[At the Palace Theater]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c1d2c109-dec4-49b5-a7c2-463ca07f09ce/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[At the Palace Theater]
Getty Museum · 1945
![[At the Palace Theatre]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/758c7b28-6c88-492c-aecd-390f8511caae/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[At the Palace Theatre]
Getty Museum · negative 1943; print about 1950
![[Audience in the Palace Theatre]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d95bbae2-2d88-40ba-9f11-4084cebe0b76/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Audience in the Palace Theatre]
Getty Museum · about 1953

Billie Dauscha and Mabel Sidney, Bowery Entertainers
Getty Museum · negative December 1944; print about 1950
![[Children at the Movies, Palace Theatre]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ef83648c-b955-4cbd-8a9b-b205ceba5c06/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Children at the Movies, Palace Theatre]
Getty Museum · about 1943–before 1946

Cop Killer
Getty Museum · negative January 16, 1941; print about 1950
![[Couple Kissing in a Bar]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7b1ab0d3-72ad-4007-95a4-fbe33acbaf78/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Couple Kissing in a Bar]
Getty Museum · negative about 1942; print about 1950
![[Crime and Punishment]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/39199446-c1fd-46f5-b4a3-dbe3a9e2abc4/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Crime and Punishment]
Getty Museum · negative November 24, 1941; print about 1950

Easter Sunday in Harlem
Getty Museum · negative 1940; print about 1950

Fire Alarm / A Couple Driven Out From the Burning Tenement
Getty Museum · April 23, 1944
![[Frank Pape, Arrested for Homicide]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f585bc03-9b20-4a3d-8f0b-d3176e99de22/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Frank Pape, Arrested for Homicide]
Getty Museum · November 4, 1944

Frank Pape, Arrested for Homicide
Getty Museum · November 10, 1944
![[Girls Watching Movie, Palace Theatre]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/09e24397-08ae-4ee9-98bd-692cc5442e68/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Girls Watching Movie, Palace Theatre]
Getty Museum · about 1943

I Cried When I Took This Picture
Getty Museum · negative December 14, 1939; print about 1950

Jimmy Durante
Getty Museum · about 1946

Jule's, The Friendlist Bar in Greenwich Village
Getty Museum · before 1946
![[Lovers at the Movies, Times Square]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/fe8c42c6-5737-4628-a8e5-cf2737e23e4d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Lovers at the Movies, Times Square]
Getty Museum · about 1953

Lovers, Coney Island, New York
Getty Museum · about 1940

Mother and Child in Harlem
Getty Museum · negative October 18, 1943; print about 1950

Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup
Getty Museum · negative February 3, 1942; print about 1950
![[Person Arrested for Cross-dressing]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/af0a7b62-0a91-4e6b-b970-7bbeae84d63d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Person Arrested for Cross-dressing]
Getty Museum · about 1939

Simply Add Boiling Water
Getty Museum · negative December 19, 1943; print about 1950

Songstress at Sammy's / Dora
Getty Museum · April 1944

Sudden Death for One, Sudden Shock for the Other / Mrs. Dorothy Reportella, Accused of Hitting a Bread Truck with Her Car
Getty Museum · negative September 7, 1944; print about 1950
![[Summer, The Lower East Side, New York City]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/98cbc340-8ea4-4fd4-bf31-fff82c38ae8d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Summer, The Lower East Side, New York City]
Getty Museum · summer 1937

The Critic
Getty Museum · November 22, 1943

The First Murder
Getty Museum · negative October 9, 1941; print about 1950

The Park Bench
Getty Museum · about 1945

U.S. Hotel at 263 Bowery
Getty Museum · negative about 1944; print about 1950
![[Viewing News Report of Yankee Game]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/21b3a8e1-3182-4721-838e-4a4da73a89f0/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Viewing News Report of Yankee Game]
Getty Museum · October 6, 1943

Waldorf Cafeteria, Greenwich Village
Getty Museum · before 1946

Wife of the Victim
Getty Museum · 1938