Weegee (born Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968) was an Austrian-born American photographer and photojournalist known for his stark, high-contrast black-and-white images of New York City life in the 1930s and 1940s. Often arriving at crime scenes before the authorities—thanks in part to a police radio in his car—he produced unflinching depictions of accidents, murders, fires, and street life that blended raw documentary with a tabloid sensibility. His work, published widely in newspapers and collected in books such as Naked City (1945), captured both the grit and vitality of urban life, influencing generations of photographers and filmmakers.
