
Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
American Photographer · 1899–1968
74 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
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After Accident
Getty Museum · December 28, 1942
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![[Alfred Stieglitz]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fade4304e-7358-4ec6-b714-9dc7514ee301%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[Alfred Stieglitz]
Getty Museum · negative May 1944; print about 1950
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Arrested for Bribing Basketball Players
Getty Museum · negative January 25, 1945; print about 1950
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A Stitch in Time
Getty Museum · negative June 9, 1941; print about 1950
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At the Concert in Harlem
Getty Museum · before 1946; print about 1950
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[At the Palace Theater]
Getty Museum · 1945
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[At the Palace Theatre]
Getty Museum · negative 1943; print about 1950
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[Audience in the Palace Theatre]
Getty Museum · about 1953
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Bandaged Man
Getty Museum · about 1940
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Before Accident
Getty Museum · December 28, 1942
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Billie Dauscha and Mabel Sidney, Bowery Entertainers
Getty Museum · negative December 1944; print about 1950
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[Calypso]
Getty Museum · about 1944
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![[Children at the Movies, Palace Theatre]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fef83648c-b955-4cbd-8a9b-b205ceba5c06%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[Children at the Movies, Palace Theatre]
Getty Museum · about 1943–before 1946
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Conflagration
Getty Museum · about 1940
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Cop Killer
Getty Museum · negative January 16, 1941; print about 1950
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[Couple Kissing in a Bar]
Getty Museum · negative about 1942; print about 1950
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[Crime and Punishment]
Getty Museum · negative November 24, 1941; print about 1950
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[Distortion: Intermission at the Metropolitan Opera]
Getty Museum · about 1943
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[Dylan Thomas]
Getty Museum · 1950
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Easter Sunday in Harlem
Getty Museum · negative 1940; print about 1950
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Elderly Woman Rescued from Fire at 209 W. 62nd St.
Getty Museum · 1941
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Emmett Kelly, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Getty Museum · negative May 1943; print about 1950
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Excursion Boat Stampede
Getty Museum · August 18, 1941
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Fire Alarm / A Couple Driven Out From the Burning Tenement
Getty Museum · April 23, 1944
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[Frank Pape, Arrested for Homicide]
Getty Museum · November 4, 1944
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Frank Pape, Arrested for Homicide
Getty Museum · November 10, 1944
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[Full House]
Getty Museum · about 1942
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General View, New York Fire
Getty Museum · about 1936
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[Girls Watching Movie, Palace Theatre]
Getty Museum · about 1943
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![[Heat Spell, Children Sleeping on the Fire Escape, the Lower East Side]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fcf3e48ca-22b7-409f-be72-ba041e74d5f8%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[Heat Spell, Children Sleeping on the Fire Escape, the Lower East Side]
Getty Museum · May 23, 1941
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[Hedda Hopper and Young Girl at a Christmas Party, Hollywood, California]
Getty Museum · about 1948
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I Cried When I Took This Picture
Getty Museum · negative December 14, 1939; print about 1950
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Intermission / First-nighters at the Met
Getty Museum · November 1943
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Jimmy Durante
Getty Museum · about 1946
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Jule's, The Friendlist Bar in Greenwich Village
Getty Museum · before 1946
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Love in Harlem
Getty Museum · before 1946
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[Lovers at the Movies, Times Square]
Getty Museum · about 1953
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Lovers, Coney Island, New York
Getty Museum · about 1940
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Male Singers of the Metropolitan Opera House Company in Last Minute Rehearsal for Opening Night
Getty Museum · November 26, 1944
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Man Arrested for Vagrancy / Joe Louis Fan
Getty Museum · about 1939
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Marilyn Monroe
Getty Museum · March 1955
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[Max is Rushing in the Morning's Bagels to a Restaurant on Second Avenue for the Morning Trade]
Getty Museum · 1940
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[Men in Jail]
Getty Museum · October 14, 1950
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Mother and Child in Harlem
Getty Museum · negative October 18, 1943; print about 1950
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My Mother in Law
Getty Museum · 1959
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New York is a Friendly Town
Getty Museum · about 1940
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Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup
Getty Museum · negative February 3, 1942; print about 1950
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![[Off She Goes]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2F0d8b662d-135f-42e9-8c7a-8d01895f8404%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[Off She Goes]
Getty Museum · June 28, 1943
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[Person Arrested for Cross-dressing]
Getty Museum · about 1939
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Portrait of a Lady
Getty Museum · December 1944
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Reception Following an Opening at the Metropolitan Opera
Getty Museum · 1943
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Sammy's Bowery Follies
Getty Museum · about 1943
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San Remo
Getty Museum · about 1945
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Simply Add Boiling Water
Getty Museum · negative December 19, 1943; print about 1950
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[Sleeper in a Bar]
Getty Museum · negative 1939; print about 1950
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[Sleep is Where You Find It]
Getty Museum · 1944
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[Some Prefer the Beat of the Tom-Tom]
Getty Museum · before 1946
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Songstress at Sammy's / Dora
Getty Museum · April 1944
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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
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[Summer, The Lower East Side, New York City]
Getty Museum · summer 1937
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