Thursday, September 23, 2010

Great black and white photographers, PART 2

Weegee or Arthur Fellig  was born June 12, 1899 and passed away December 26, 1968.
He was from Złoczów, Austrian Galicia. He was a well known black and white street photographer and photojournalist. Weegee published photography books, and worked in cinema. Weegee was the only New York newspaper reporter with a permit to have a portable police-band shortwave radio. He is best known for his candid news photographer, documenting  street life in New York City. He was a self-taught photographer with no formal photographic training. He published a photography book titled Naked City. He would mostly get photographs of Crime scenes, murders, and drunks.

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