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ID: 500032312 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500032312			Record Type: Person

Weegee (American photographer, 1899-1968)

Note: American photographer, active in New York City and Hollywood. Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee professionally, is noted for his photographs depicting crime and other newsworthy events, usually taken at night. His early career was spent as a freelance press photographer. He prided himself on his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime before the police, and derived his name from the phonetic pronunciation of the Ouija board. He sold his images to tabloid newspapers from 1935 through the 1940s, and published his first book, Naked City in 1945, followed by Weegee's People in 1946. Naked City was a commercial success and guaranteed his income. At this point he began taking portraits of celebrities and figures in the entertainment industry. He used a variety of trick lenses to distort and manipulate these images, and often exposed or exagerrated the imperfections of his subjects. He experimented with infrared film and flash to make exposures in darkness, particularly of people in darkened movie theaters. Weegee used a 4x5 Speed Graphic press camera and flash exclusively throughout his career; and is not known for his printing virtuosity, but for the elements of social critique in his photographs. He was a flamboyant character, and revelled in his own notoreity and mythology.

Names:
	Weegee (preferred,V,display,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Weegee (Dutch-P,NA)
	Fellig, Arthur H. (V)
	Fellig, Arthur (V)
	Weegee the Famous (V)
	Fellig, Usher (V)
	Weejee (U)
	Vig'i (U)
	Felig, Artur (U)
	Felig, Asher (U)
	פליג, אשר (U)
	Arthur Fellig (V)
	וייג'י (ארתור ה' פליג) (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	Felling, Arthur (U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	Polish
	Eastern European
	Central European
	Austrian

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	photographer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Złoczew (Łódzkie voivodship, Poland) (inhabited place) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

friend of ....	Stettner, Louis
................	(American photographer, 1922-2016) [500346951]

List/Hierarchical Position:

....

Persons, Artists

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Weegee (I)

Biographies:

(American photographer, 1899-1968) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American (b. Poland), 1899-1968) ..... [JPGM]
(American photographer, 1899-1968) ..... [BHA]
(American photographer, 1899-1968) ..... [Grove Art]
(Polish photographer, 1899-1968) ..... [IMJ]
(artist, 1899-1968) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born Austria. 1899-1968)
(American photographer, 1899-1968) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

פליג, אשר ........	[GRL]
..................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50001111

וייג'י (ארתור ה' פליג) ........	[IMJ, VP]
........................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Arthur Fellig ........	[VP]
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)

Felig, Artur ........	[GRL]
..........................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50001111

Felig, Asher ........	[GRL]
..........................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50001111

Fellig, Arthur ........	[GRL, Grove Art, RKD, VP]
..............................	Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)
..............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50001111
..............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 213230

Fellig, Arthur H. ........	[BHA, GRL, VP]
...................................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
...................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
...................................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50001111

Fellig, Usher ........	[GRL, Grove Art, RKD, VP]
............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................	Grove Art Online (2003-2008)
............................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50001111
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 213230

Felling, Arthur ........	[RKD]
................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 213230

Vig'i ........	[GRL, VP]
.............	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50001111

Weegee ........	[BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
...............	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
...............	Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)
...............	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
...............	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
...............	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
...............	J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
...............	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50001111
...............	RKD Artists database (2000-) 213230

Weegee the Famous ........	[VP]
..................................	The Getty [online] (1997-)

Weejee ........	[GRL]
...............	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50001111


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 10 May 2005
	..........	The Getty [online] (1997-) accessed 10 May 2005

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