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Background information
"'Weegee,' actually Arthur Fellig, was an American photographer who worked as an independent press photographer in New York City in the 1930s and '40s. Thanks to his police radio equipment, he was often on the scene before emergency personnel, specializing in images of mostly nighttime traffic accidents, fire disasters, and violence. The shots from his 4×5″ camera were regularly published in all the major tabloids, and his trademark was close-up photos, head-on and harshly lit with flash." (© Schirmer / Mosel Publishers, 1982)
Content
The photo volume 'Weegee's New York. Photographien 1935-1960' contains, in addition to the B&W photographs, an autobiographical text by Weegee, translated from the American by Reinhard Kaiser. The individual chapter headings are telling and read: Fire - Coney Island beach - Accidents - Crime - Green m Inna - Night types - Sleeping - At the movies - Children - At the circus - Society - Musicians - Bars - Soldiers - Audience - Strippers - Famous - Self portraits.