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WEEGEE: “Weegee and the Jewish Question” (1997)

Weegee and the Jewish Question By David Serlin and Jesse Lerner Weegee (né Usher Fellig) is best known for his dystopic urban photographs, principally those images made in New York as a free-lance photojournalist in the years prior to the end of World War II. But these photographs represent only a portion of his work, a vast corpus including satirical city symphonies like Hollywood: Land of the Zombies; his “collaborations with Picasso&#…

WEEGEE: “Weegee and the Jewish Question” (1997)

WEEGEE: “Mass Hysteria” (1998)

New Year’s Eve at Sammy’s on the Bowery, 1943. By Max Kozloff, ArtForum, March 1998 Paparazzi are notoriously ruthless characters who trade in visual exposure and derision. In the photographs taken by Weegee for the New York tabloids of ca. 1935-45, those paparazzo effects of sensationalism and impudence are crossed with laughter, which destabilizes everything. Though his methods are often expeditious in themselves, they are so cha…

WEEGEE: “Mass Hysteria” (1998)

INTERVIEW: “Mary Margaret McBride with Weegee” (1945)

At the Palace Theater with 3D Glasses, c. 1945

Interview with Weegee and Mary Margaret McBride for station WEAF on July 11, 1945 ANNOUNCER: It’s one o’clock, and here transcribed is Mary Margaret McBride. MARY MARGARET MCBRIDE: Who’s always been madly in love with New York City, but maybe Weegee, I’m not quite as much in love with it as you are. The way everybody talks about you and this book, this beautiful book that you’ve done, I think maybe you not only lo…

INTERVIEW: “Mary Margaret McBride with Weegee” (1945)

ASX.TV: Weegee – “Weegee Tells How”

Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, was a New York city freelance news photographer from the 1930s to the 1950s. Here he talks about his career and gives advice to those wanting to become news photographers. ASX CHANNEL: WEEGEE …

ASX.TV: Weegee – “Weegee Tells How”