New York in the 1940s through the lens of Weegee, the master of crime photography.

From 1938 to 1947, every evening after dark, this man took to the streets of Manhattan with a camera and flash, always with a cigar in the corner of his mouth. This guy is Asher Fellig, but his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime before the smartest cops has brought him fame under a completely different name: Ouija. Ouija is an imitation of the sound of a police siren.

Weegee came to New York as a small boy from a Jewish shtetl in Austria-Hungary (now part of Ukraine). The adult Fellig began working as a photojournalist, but preferred to follow his own impulses and be guided by his own motives, so that he was essentially a freelancer. He took photographs, for which various publications fought to purchase the rights.

Weegee was the first to use police radio listening. New York in the '30s and '40s was a violent, loud, and raunchy place, and Weegee showcased all of those aspects of the city.

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