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Photographer unknown.Portrait of Weegee (ArthurFellig), c.1956 Inscribed onimage: "To all mySubjects, Weegee."
Photographer unknown.Weegee's parents - Racheland Bernard Fellig, c. 1920s
Time Line- Born June 12,1899
- Left for the United States in 1906
- 1910 Bernard sends for his wife and fourchildren
- 1914 Arthur Fellig leaves his familyhome
- 1917 Fellig Hired by Ducket & Adler PhotoStudio
- 1921 Fellig began to work at the New YorkTimes
- 1927 began his employment at Acme Pictures
- 1935 Weegee becomes a freelancephotographer
- 1938 Weegee becomes the first civilian with a policeradio
Photographer unknown.Weegee at his typewriter inthe trunk of his 1938'Chevy,' c.1943 pgwny334
- 1940 PM Daily was created by RalphIngrersoll
- 1944 exhibition in “Art in Progress”, Museum of Modern Art
- 1946 Publication of Naked City
Prohibition from 1920-1933
Rise in crime syndicates
The Great Depressionspanning from 1929 intothe early 1940’s
An unemployment ratedipping to 23.6% in 1932
High immigrant densityin New York Lower EastSide
Major divid betweenworking class and thewealthy/elite
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Year Rate
1920 5.2%
1920 4.2
1920 8.7
1932 23.6
1934 21.7
1936 16.9
1938 19.0
1940 14.6
1942 4.7%
1944 1.2
1946 3.9
1948 3.8
1950 5.3
Unemployment Rate
Political and Economical Climate
Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library/Humanities and Social SciencesLibrary / Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local
History and Genealogy.
East side tenement building,New York, New York, 1927
NEW YORK CITY, 1940 -- A father and son wave Americanflags at a parade in Chinatown.
Coney Island (Sewing Pants)- 1960Children Sleeping ona fires escape 1941
“Weegee also exposed the terrible disorder and chaos of life for the poor”pg 10WNY
Fire in Harlem- her kids are still in theburning building- 1942
The clothing has been saved- 1943
On the Toilet- 1941
“No other art from rivals photography’s capacity to be meaningless, to toppleinto a void. As a hedge against vacuity, ambitious photographers cloak
themselves in a knowledge of art. But Weegee was an innocent, a primitive whodescribes strong emotions and guilelessly jabbed at ours” (Coplans 7).
OppressivePessimism
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Suspicion
the human conditionDingy
Futilitydefeat Entrapment
Melancholy
Alienation
Fatalismbleakness
Disillusionment ParanoiaCorruption
disenchantmentMoral Ambiguity
Evilguilt Desperation
cynicism
dark
sadistic disorienting
Juxtaposing
gloomy
Claustrophobic
jarring
Rain
mean streets
murder
Night has a Thousand Eyes- 1948 Car Crash Upper Fifth Ave- July 13th, 1941
- The focus point
- Confinement
- Framing
- Positioning
- Reflection - Spectators eyes
Their First Murder- October 9, 1941 Cornell Woolrich’s Deadline at Dawn
“Weegee had aesthetic predilection for artificial light. Heliked the way in which an object is highlighted and flattened
by a freeze action of flash, and slowly dissolves into asaturated black background. He called this ‘Rembrandtlight’. This effect is only partly due to his equipment.”
-Weegee’s New York