Weegee the famous

“I have no inhibition, and neither does my camera”. Freelance photographer Arthur Fellig died obscurely in New York in 1968. His newspaper pictures – published under his working name “Weegee” – were intended to be looked at once and then discarded. Weegee recorded 5000 murders, plus fires, gangland vendettas, street fights, car accidents – life and death on the streets of the city he loved. In 1945 he showed New York to itself in his now legendary boo “Naked City”. From that point on his camera was no longer anonymous – Weegee was famous.