Weegee's New Yorkers

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December 10, 2009
Weegee's New Yorkers

Criminals, drunks, murder victims… a Jewish immigrant called Usher Fellig photographed them all — and turned them into works of art.

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Billie Dauscha (left) and Mabel Sidney, Bowery entertainers
Billie Dauscha (left) and Mabel Sidney, Bowery entertainersAfter the Opera, at Sammy’s nightclub on the Bowery, 1944Henry Rosen (left) and Harvey Stemmer (centre), racketeers arrested for fixing a basketball gameOut of the River, 1942. A body is visible in the carWeegee captured this fire at a sausage factory in 1937. The title of the image echoes the sign on the building— Simply add boiling water Street Scene, 1944 — a mannequin doubles as a dead body
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