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Indepth Arts News:
"Weegee's World: Life, Death, and the Human Drama"
2000-10-14 until 2001-01-07
George Eastman House
Rochester, NY,
USA United States of America
The raucous, gritty, exuberant, and sometimes tender images of Weegee (Arthur Fellig, 1899-1968), one of this country's most celebrated
photojournalists, will be on view in the Brackett Clark Gallery from October 14, 2000, through January 7, 2001, in the exhibition Weegee's
World: Life, Death, and the Human Drama.
Weegee didn't invent 1930's tabloid news photography; he perfected it. The bold, graphic approach of his newspaper work was most often
executed at night, his large camera flash freezing an event in dramatic and revealing light. Weegee observed of his work: I was on the scene;
sometimes drawn there by some power I can't explain, and I caught the New Yorkers with their masks off . . . not afraid to laugh, cry, or make
love. What I felt I photographed, laughing and crying with them.
The exhibition of more than two hundred photographs traces the career of a news photographer whose very name became synonymous with the
brash, telling tabloid photography of the time.
Organized by the International Center of Photography, New York.
IAMGE
Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
(American, 1899-1968).
MURDER AT THE FEAST OF SAN GENNARO,
SEPTEMBER 22, 1939.
Gelatin silver print.
Weegee (Arthur Fellig) copyright 1944,
International
Center of Photography, New York,
bequest of Wilma Wilcox.
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