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American photographer and photojournalist

This article is about the 20th-century photographer.

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Early influences in his pre-teen and teen years were Dorothea Lange and her Dust Bowl photography, "Weegee" (Arthur Fellig) and his gritty inner city photo.

Polish-born newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, seated on a lavish throne with a crown and sceptre and of course, his.

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Arthur (Usher) Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), known by his pseudonymWeegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City.^[1]

Weegee worked in Manhattan's Lower East Side as a press photographer during the 1930s and 1940s and developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity.^[2] Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death.

Weegee published photographic books and also worked in cinema, initially making his own short films and later collaborating with film directors such as Jack Donohue and Stanley Kubrick.

Weegee was born Ascher (later modified to Usher) Fellig in Złoczów (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), near Lemberg in Galicia-Lodome