Ouija — restless photographer who was everywhere
Old photos are always of interest. But there's just old photos and got a photo taken of Widgeon. It's something very special even by today's standards. "Man — in plug every hole" is about him. Extremely restless photographer who was everywhere. Worked as a freelancer and specialized in criminal photography, selling pictures of all the new York Newspapers.
Real name Ouija Arthur Fellig. He was born in 1889 in the town of Zolochiv, which is now in Ukraine and was then part of the Austrian Empire. In 1909, his parents brought him to new York, where he changed a bunch of work, including those related to photography, until in 1935 became a freelance photographer. According to him, he did not wait until someone offers him a decent job, and created this work himself. The first two years he spent in the police Department, while having no accreditation. When the teletype came the message about the incident, he quickly went there, arriving at the murder scene before the police and the fire before firefighters. The pictures he was shown and printed directly in the trunk of his car. In 1938, he became the only reporter in new York, which received permission to use the police radio. Ouija left behind a huge number of photographs that are a unique material, which gives an idea about the everyday details of life in new York 1930-1950 years. This is probably the most vivid black and white photographs that I saw. Now work Pilliga stored in the major art museums and auction value one shot over $ 1000.
1. Charles Salkoff and Arthur Webber in a police van, 1942
2. A policeman covers a fire hydrant, 1944
3. Under the metro line on the Bowery
4. Thong, 1950
5. The critic, 1943
6. Easter in Harlem, 1940
7. Street vendor
8. Male arrested for dressing up as a woman, 1939
9. Transvestite in a police van, 1939
10. Last kiss before sending in the part, 1942
11. Cops, 1940
12. Shy
13. In the cafeteria on East Broadway, 1940s
14. Kip, 1938
15. In the cinema, 1945
16. The walking shop, 1940s
17. At the scene, 1940
18. U. S. Hotel, 1940
19. Sleeping in the bar, 1939
20. The incident at the train station Grand Central station, 1944
21. "Just put them in boiling water" (on the roof of the building is sausages)
22. At the murder scene on the East side, 1943
23. At the jazz concert
24. Children on fire escape, 1938. (Before the era of air conditioning it was completely normal. Those who have no stairs, slept on the street)
25. In the circus, 1943
26. The crowd at Coney island, 1940
27. Turn in night court, 1941
28. Poteryashka
29. Lovers in a bar on the Bowery
30. Before market in Fort Greene, 1943
31. At the metro station during a massive power outage, 1943
32. Summer in the Lower East side, 1937
33. The woman knees buckled after she learned about the death of her husband, 1940
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35. Before the show, 1950
36. And then she began to cry. At the concert of Frank Sinatra, 1944
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38. The victims of the accident on a cruise ship, 1941
39. The grocer, 1946
40. The woman gives an autograph
41. Fell asleep in the cinema
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43. Drunk in front of the restaurant, 1945
44. Holidaymaker who became ill at the beach (the girl has a good reaction to the photographer)
45. Sentenced to death in the gas chamber. Forehead logo Westinghouse Electric Company
46. Anthony Esposito, who was arrested on suspicion of killing a policeman, 1941
47. Harry Maxwell shot in car, 1941
48. Hats in a pool on mulberry street, 1943
49. The policeman gets out of the water the body of the ambulance driver, 1943
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51. Widgeon at the murder scene
52. Ouija in his Studio
Keywords: 40s | Archive | New York | Photographer