Weegee the Famous and film noir Time Line - Born June 12,1899

- Left for the United States in 1906

- 1910 Bernard sends for his wife and four children Photographer unknown. 1914 Arthur Fellig leaves his family Weegee's parents - Rachel - and Bernard Fellig, c. 1920s home - 1917 Fellig Hired by Ducket & Adler Photo Studio - 1921 Fellig began to work at the New York Times - 1927 began his employment at Acme Pictures

- 1935 Weegee becomes a freelance Photographer unknown. photographer Portrait of Weegee (Arthur Fellig), c.1956 Inscribed on image: "To all my - 1938 Weegee becomes the first civilian with a police Subjects, Weegee." radio - 1940 PM Daily was created by Ralph Ingrersoll - 1944 exhibition in “Art in Progress”, Museum of Modern Art

Photographer unknown. Weegee at his typewriter in 1946 Publication of Naked City the trunk of his 1938 - 'Chevy,' c.1943 pgwny334 Political and Economical Climate

• Prohibition from 1920- Unemployment Rate East side tenement building,New York, New York, 1927 1933 Year Rate

1920 5.2% • Rise in crime syndicates 1920 4.2

1920 8.7 • The Great Depression spanning from 1929 into 1932 23.6 the early 1940’s 1934 21.7

1936 16.9 • An unemployment rate dipping to 23.6% in 1932 1938 19.0

1940 14.6 • High immigrant density in New York Lower East 1942 4.7% Side 1944 1.2

1946 3.9 • Major divid between working class and the 1948 3.8 wealthy/elite 1950 5.3

Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library/Humanities and Social Sciences Library / Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. “Weegee also exposed the terrible disorder and chaos of life for the poor” pg 10WNY

NEW YORK CITY, 1940 -- A father and son wave American flags at a parade in Chinatown.

Children Sleeping on Coney Island (Sewing Pants)- 1960 a fires escape 1941 “No other art from rivals photography’s capacity to be meaningless, to topple into a void. As a hedge against vacuity, ambitious photographers cloak themselves in a knowledge of art. But Weegee was an innocent, a primitive who describes strong emotions and guilelessly jabbed at ours” (Coplans 7).

On the Toilet- 1941 Fire in Harlem- her kids are still in the burning building- 1942 The clothing has been saved- 1943 The Critic- 1943 sadistic cynicism disorienting bleakness Oppressive Fatalism dark Pessimism Disillusionment Paranoia Futility Corruption Rain Suspicion defeat Juxtaposing Alienation Entrapment disenchantment Moral Ambiguity murder Claustrophobic Dingy the human condition Melancholy jarring guilt Evil Desperation gloomy mean streets Night has a Thousand Eyes- 1948 Car Crash Upper Fifth Ave- July 13th, 1941

- The focus point - Framing

- Confinement - Positioning

- Reflection - Spectators eyes He Ran All the Way- 1951 Mother and child in Harlem- 1939 Their First Murder- October 9, 1941 Cornell Woolrich’s Deadline at Dawn

“Weegee had aesthetic predilection for artificial light. He liked the way in which an object is highlighted and flattened by a freeze action of flash, and slowly dissolves into a saturated black background. He called this ‘Rembrandt light’. This effect is only partly due to his equipment.” -Weegee’s New York Citizen Kane- 1941 - Lines - Shadows

- Bars “Cooler”- 1942 Hole where plane (B-25) hit Empire State Building- 1945 Dead man in a restaurant Couple in Voodoo Trance- 1956 End