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