Weegee
Weegee
Weegee was the pseudonym of ArthurFellig, a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in Manhattan, New York City's Lower East Side as a press photographer during the 1930s and 1940s, and he developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. Weegee published photographic books and also worked in cinema, initially making...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth12 June 1899
CountryUnited States of America
The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It’s exciting. It’s dangerous. It’s funny. It’s tough. It’s heartbreaking.
News photography teaches you to think fast.
A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to take up photography. As a matter of fact, I inspire myself. (When I take a good picture I give myself a bonus.).
I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.
It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.
Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.
I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.
Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.
If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.
There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.