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In Weegee's telling, his uncanny ability to arrive at crime scenes, sometimes even before the police, led to his nickname "Weegee," a phonetic spelling of Ouija, like the fortune-telling board.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tom Teicholz 2011
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Michael Champman's cinematography, whose black-and-white palette emulates the street photography of Weegee, is at the top of the list, along with Thelma Schoonmaker's crisp editing and the meticulous sound design.
Fighting Hard to Be Seen Steve Dollar 2010
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In utter contrast, Arthur Fellig, otherwise known as Weegee, is evoked as he stalked New York in the 1930s and 40s, seeking out the dead and dying victims of accidents and crimes.
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Some say he came to be called Weegee for his prescient ability to be in the right place at the right time to get the crime photographs; others say it was for his uncanny ability to capture just the right shot.
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A photographer by the name of Arthur Fellig (1899-1968) and known as Weegee, worked the crime beat in the 1930s and '40s, and he is the person who is most associated with this type of crime photography.
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A photographer by the name of Arthur Fellig (1899-1968) and known as Weegee, worked the crime beat in the 1930s and '40s, and he is the person who is most associated with this type of crime photography.
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Some say he came to be called Weegee for his prescient ability to be in the right place at the right time to get the crime photographs; others say it was for his uncanny ability to capture just the right shot.
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"Weegee — From the Berinson Collection" presents vintage original black-and-white prints by photographer Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, including some of his most famous images and many that have never been reproduced.
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Photographer Arthur Fellig 1899-1968, known as "Weegee" loved beating the cops to a corpse.
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Mr. Fellig, better known as Weegee, is the subject of a sprawling show at the International Center of Photography devoted to an intense decade in the city's history.
NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2012
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