Blazing a trail for the freelancers of today Arthur Fellig, better known
as Weegee, was possibly the greatest street photographer that ever
lived. Instead of waiting to be asked to take photos he spent his time
in the 1930's and 40's creating his own assignments by following the emergency services around
the Lower East Side of New York and selling his pictures to the
newspapers. He gained the nickname Weegee, a phonetic spelling of Ouija,
from his knack of always being the first to arrive at a crime scene.
Weegee's New York & Coney Island
Weegee started to experiment with 16mm film in the 1950's (above) and worked as the stills photographer and Special Effects Consultant on Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1964. In his later years he produced a series of
distorted photos including this famous image of Marilyn Monroe.
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