Weegee is a master of criminal photography

From 1938 to 1947, every evening after dark, this man took to the streets of Manhattan with a camera and a flashlight - he always had 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 brought him fame under a completely different name - Weegee. Weegee is an imitation of the sound of a police siren.

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

Weegee was the first to use police radio listening. New York in the 1930s and 1940s was a violent, noisy, and obscene place, and Weegee showed all of those sides of the city.

(Total 13 photos)

1. "Who said that all people are equal?", July 1945

2. Portrait of Weegee, author unknown, 1946

3. "In fear", December 1939

4. Marking the End of the War, 1945

5. “Killed during an attempted robbery”, 1942

6. "Hitler gets hit in the neck", May 7, 1945

7. "Puppy of Victory", August 14, 1945

8. "The human factor", 1944

9. Portrait of Charles de Gaulle, July 18, 1959

10. "Assistant firefighters", 1943

11. Frozen Assets, 1940

12. "Under the protection of the police", 1944

13. Weegee, July 1945